session 5: the nfa audit process panelists: roxanne bennett, price asset management jennifer sunu,...
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Session 5:The NFA Audit Process
Panelists:Roxanne Bennett, Price Asset Management
Jennifer Sunu, NFAMatt Pendell, NFA
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Risk-Based Audit Selection
• Concerns noted during a review of the firm’s promotional materials, disclosure documents and/or financial statements
• Funds under management or degree of leverage
• Customer complaints• Referrals NFA receives from other agencies• Time since registration or last audit
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Self-Examination Checklist
• First step toward a successful NFA audit• General operations checklist• Supplemental checklists for FCMs, IBs, CPOs
and CTAs• Signed attestation required• If you have questions, contact NFA at 1-800-
621-3570
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Other Available Resources
• Publication: NFA Regulatory Requirements for FCMs, IBs, CPOs and CTAs
• NFA Podcast (10 minutes) and Web Seminar (one hour): “Preparing for an NFA Audit”
• NFA Podcast (10 minutes): “Registration Issues – Principals, APs and Branch Offices
• Appendices to Self-Exam Checklist: AML, ethics training, privacy policy, disaster recovery
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NFA Audit Process
• Pre-exam– Planning Interview– Initial Record Request
• Fieldwork– Opening and Exit Interviews– Document Review/Testing– Additional Record Requests
• Completion of Audit– Report– Corrective Action
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Areas of Focus
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Areas of Focus
• Registration of APs, Principals, Other Firms • Promotional Material• Disclosure and Performance Reporting• Account Opening• Trading • Supervision• Handling of Pool Funds • Financial Reporting
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CPO Audits: New Areas of Focus
• FAS 157 Hierarchy
• Valuation Policies- Reasonableness- Conflicts of Interest- Disclosure- Exception Reports
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CPO Audits: New Areas of Focus
• Side Letters/Preferred Redemptions- Compliance with Lock-Up or Gate
Provisions- Disclosure- Just and Equitable Principles
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CPO Audits: New Areas of Focus
• Side Pocket Investments- Reasonableness of the Classification- Valuation
• Strategy Promotion- Due Diligence Process- Multi-Advisor- Fund-of-Funds
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Common Audit Deficiencies
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Registration
• Unlisted principals
• Unregistered Associated Persons
• Failing to update registration records
• Bylaw 1101
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Bylaw 1101: Due Diligence
• Does the account appear to require registration?
• If not, why not (exemption, offshore)
• If yes, why and is it registered?
• Is the pool operator an NFA member?
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Bylaw 1101: Where to look
• BASIC
• Part 4 Exemption Look-Up in ORS and BASIC
• Ask firm for copy of exemption
• In all cases, document findings
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Disclosure Documents
• Operations inconsistent with disclosure– Fees– Redemptions– Trading Strategy
• All required performance not disclosed• Performance capsule information inaccurate
– Number of accounts– Total assets under management
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Bunched Orders
• CTA must conduct a quarterly review of accounts to ensure that bunched orders are allocated in a non-preferential manner
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Pool Financial Reporting
Incomplete account statements• Information only included for the individual pool
participant• Statements must include information for the pool in
its entirety• Statements do not properly itemize all required
information- Additions/Withdrawals- NAV per unit
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Pool Financial Reporting
• Required information beneath the oath on each account statement:– The name of the individual signing the account statement– The capacity in which he or she is signing– The name of the commodity pool operator for whom he or
she is signing– The name of the commodity pool for which the statement is
being distributed
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Performance
• No supporting worksheets• Inappropriate use of composite performance
capsules• Details covered during Session 2
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Other Items
• Distribute a privacy policy to its customers upon establishing the relationship and on an annual basis.
• Attend ethics training within the time period established in firm’s procedures
• Review/test disaster recovery plan at least annually• Complete Self-Exam Checklist annually
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Session 5:The NFA Audit Process
Panelists:Roxanne Bennett, Price Asset Management
Jennifer Sunu, NFAMatt Pendell, NFA