The Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement program is highly focused on investment advisers for an obvious reason: they manage more than $67 trillion in assets for approximately 30 million clients. In addition, because the SEC examines a far smaller percentage of investment advisers than broker-dealers, and there is no self-regulatory organization, like the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, that also regulates investment advisers, enforcement plays a prominent role in sending a message to the investment management industry about the areas of concern to the Commission.