Private Client Group: Provide focus to the private client groups in their dealings with individual investors both US and globally

PCG's Mission

To discuss and debate all private client related issues within SIFMA to:  a) develop uniform – or consensus - Board opinion, b) speak publicly on private client issues, and c) confer with the Chairs of the SIFMA Committees in the private client space to ensure that Board objectives are being met by the working Committees, and that concerns of the working Committees are communicated to the Board and acted upon, where appropriate.

View the PCG's Steering Committee Roster
View the PCG's Organization Chart

Committees:

  • Private Client Services (formerly Sales and Marketing)
  • Independent Firms
  • Regional Firms
  • Small Firms

Latest Releases

April 3, 2009
SIFMA’s comment letter to FINRA regarding proposed changes to the document production lists in the “Discovery Guide."  SIFMA supports the goal of improving the discovery process in arbitration, but also expresses specific concerns regarding the proposed changes.

October 21, 2008
SIFMA's President and CEO, Timothy Ryan, testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives, in favor of stability regulator

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Other Issues:

Fee-Based Brokerage Accounts

Related Links

Staff Adviser: John Maurello

View the last issue of MarketShare - a publication of SIFMA's Private Client Services Committee

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SEC Audit Exemption Expires:
FINRA issued an Information Notice that the SEC's Order exempting non-public broker-dealers from certain audit requirements mandated by Sarbanes-Oxley has expired.
Please click here for a list of registered accounting firms from the PCAOB.