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SEC v. du Pasquier & Co., Inc. (2015)

Settled

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In January 2015 the Securities and Exchange Commission settled an administrative order with du Pasquier & Co., finding compliance-program failures at the adviser and broker-dealer. The order imposes a $50,000 penalty.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency SEC
Release number IA-4004
Date filed 2015-01-21
Date resolved 2015-01-21
Status settled
Criminal parallel No
Defendants du Pasquier & Co., Inc. (entity)
Cited as charged or alleged Advisers Act s.204A ; Advisers Act s.206 (statutes and rules cited in the document; not a finding that they were violated)
Techniques

What was ordered

Civil penalty
$50k
Disgorgement
—
Prejudgment interest
—
Total relief
$50k
Alleged gain
—

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced this matter on January 21, 2015 as release IA-4004. The respondents named are du Pasquier & Co., Inc. (0 individuals, 1 entity).

The order finds du Pasquier violated Advisers Act rules on compliance policies, annual reviews and access-person trading reviews, and failed to update its Form ADV.

This library does not tag the matter to a manipulation technique. The matter is an investment adviser compliance case with no short-selling or manipulation element.

The relief recorded in our data is a civil penalty of $50,000. Penalty and disgorgement are distinct: disgorgement returns the gain, while the penalty is punitive. We store them separately so that aggregate figures across the library are not double-counted.

For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary document linked above. This page deliberately summarises the structured record rather than reproducing the release.

Timeline

  1. 2015-01-21 Administrative proceeding instituted (cease-and-desist)

Primary documents

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Record added September 10, 2026. submit a correction.