Advisors Get Online Help to Identify ‘Switch’ Requirements: NASAA

The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) announced that it had recently launched an online resource to assist financial advisors in making the switch from federal to state registration. The resource is located on the association’s website and offers, as a convenience for advisors, information on individual state registration requirements.

Under Dodd-Frank, advisors with assets under management of between $25 million–$100 million must switch from federal registration to state, and must do so by June 28. Advisors who don’t need to switch from SEC registration had to notify the agency of their eligibility to stay with federal registration by March 30.

Jack E. Herstein, NASAA president and assistant director of the Nebraska Department of Banking and Finance Bureau of Securities, said of NASAA’s latest step to help advisors, “State securities regulators are pleased to provide this new resource, which is further evidence of our dedicated effort to assist advisers in making the switch from SEC to state registration.”

The online IA Registration Resource is available on the IA Switch Resource Center, located on the NASAA website. It contains data on individual state registration fees, financial and bonding requirements, requirements for sole proprietorships and branch offices, de minimis requirements and other required documents.