Private Equity (PE) and Hedge Fund (HF) Compliance Hiring less than expected. Who says? “The growth of compliance teams is not what you think it would be,” said Stuart Rosenthal, managing director of Rosenthal Recruiting. “It’s a business decision first. The majority of firms are outsourcing when they can or hiring a junior person.” 

Read more of what was said by +Stuart Rosenthal, other Recruiters,  Mavis Kelly, Assistant Director with the S.E.C. Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) as well as a Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel at a Greenwich, CT-based Hedge Fund. The Assistant Director of OCIE warned about outsourcing an entire compliance program. http://www.complianceintel.com/Article/3139502/Private-Advisers-Slow-To-Hire-CCOs.html

Comments from Senior Sell Side Compliance Officers of late to +Stuart Rosenthal: Compliance is getting tougher and tougher, There are some good regulators that do not have an agenda.

From Another:
IS it a good time to be in compliance?  I know people getting out because the regulators are targeting CCO's and some of the regulations have gotten crazy, not to mention that budgets are terrible because the business isn't robust.

Yet another CCO is concerned because he knows Investment Banking and Trading Commissions are 'squeezed.'

What else is new? Today from Twitter 

@SuzanneBarlyn

#SEC finally announces enforcement director's departure weeks after initial reports: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/09/secd-khuzami-idUSL1E9C95ZI20130109 … @SarahNLynch #Khuzami @Reuters

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