Document ID: SEC-2018-1246-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Posted Date: 2018-08-09T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 154 (Thursday, August 9, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39485-39486]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-17000]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Office of FOIA Services, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 
20549-2736

Extension:
    Rule 206(4)-3, SEC File No. 270-218, OMB Control No. 3235-0242

    Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of Management 
and Budget a request for approval of extension of the previously 
approved collection of information discussed below.
    Rule 206(4)-3 (17 CFR 275.206(4)-3) under the Investment Advisers 
Act of 1940, which is entitled ``Cash Payments for Client 
Solicitations,'' provides restrictions on cash payments for client 
solicitations. The rule requires that an adviser pay all solicitors' 
fees pursuant to a written agreement. When an adviser will provide only 
impersonal advisory services to the prospective client, the rule 
imposes no disclosure requirements. When the solicitor is affiliated 
with the adviser and the adviser will provide individualized advisory 
services to the prospective client, the solicitor must, at the time of 
the solicitation or referral, indicate to the prospective client that 
he is affiliated with the adviser. When the solicitor is not affiliated 
with the adviser and the adviser will provide individualized advisory 
services to the prospective client, the solicitor must, at the time of 
the solicitation or referral, provide the prospective client with a 
copy of the adviser's brochure and a disclosure document containing 
information specified in rule 206(4)-3. Amendments to rule 206(4)-3, 
adopted

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in 2010 in connection with rule 206(4)-5, specify that solicitation 
activities involving a government entity, as defined in rule 206(4)-5, 
are subject to the additional limitations of rule 206(4)-5. The 
information rule 206(4)-3 requires is necessary to inform advisory 
clients about the nature of the solicitor's financial interest in the 
recommendation so the prospective clients may consider the solicitor's 
potential bias, and to protect clients against solicitation activities 
being carried out in a manner inconsistent with the adviser's fiduciary 
duty to clients. Rule 206(4)-3 is applicable to all Commission 
registered investment advisers. The Commission believes that 
approximately 4,395 of these advisers have cash referral fee 
arrangements. The rule requires approximately 7.04 burden hours per 
year per adviser and results in a total of approximately 30,941 total 
burden hours (7.04 x 4,395) for all advisers.
    The disclosure requirements of rule 206(4)-3 do not require 
recordkeeping or record retention. The collections of information 
requirements under the rules are mandatory. Information subject to the 
disclosure requirements of rule 206(4)-3 is not submitted to the 
Commission. The disclosures pursuant to the rule are not kept 
confidential. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 
required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays 
a currently valid OMB control number.
    The public may view the background documentation for this 
information collection at the following website, www.reginfo.gov. 
Comments should be directed to: (i) Desk Officer for the Securities and 
Exchange Commission, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget, Room 10102, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503, or by sending an email to: 
[email protected]; and (ii) Pamela Dyson, Director/Chief 
Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o Candace 
Kenner, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549 or send an email to: 
[email protected]. Comments must be submitted to OMB within 30 days 
of this notice.

    Dated: August 3, 2018.
Eduardo A. Aleman,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-17000 Filed 8-8-18; 8:45 am]
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