Covered Associate definition

Covered Associate means any general partner, managing member or executive officer, or other individual with a similar status or function, any employee who solicits a government entity for the investment adviser and any person who supervises, directly or indirectly, such employee.

Covered Associate means: (i) Any general partner, managing member or executive officer, or other individual with a similar status or function; (ii) Any employee who solicits a government entity for the Company and any person who supervises, directly or indirectly, such employee; and (iii) Any political action committee controlled by the Company or by any of the aforementioned persons.

Covered Associate means, for purposes of this Policy, all Vontobel Employees. The determination of whether any other person or entity is a Covered Associate shall be made by the Legal and Compliance Department.

Examples of Covered Associate in a sentence

• Contributions by a Covered Associate made to any elected official who, within two years of the contribution, is in a position to influence the retention or has legal authority to retain WCM, will result in the firm’s prohibition in receiving any adviser fees from that government entity for a period of two years.

• If and only if a contribution does not present a conflict of interest or harm WCM’s ability to obtain clients will the Covered Associate be allowed to make such a contribution.

• This exception, created to enable Advisers to cure an inadvertent political contribution made by a Covered Associate to an official for whom the covered associate is not entitled to vote, is available for contributions that in the aggregate, do not exceed $350 to any one official, per election.

• Indirect actions by a Covered Associate that would result in a violation of the Political Contribution Rule, Rule 206(4)-5, if done directly, are prohibited.

• However, if the new Covered Associate does not solicit clients on behalf of the Adviser, the two-year ban period is reduced to a maximum of six months.

More Definitions of Covered Associate

Covered Associate means (i) any general partner, managing member or executive officer, or other individual with a similar status or function; (ii) any employee who solicits a government entity for the adviser and person who supervises, directly or indirectly, such employee; and Z(iii) any political action committee ("PAC") controlled by the adviser or by any such persons described in clauses (i) or (ii). (See SEC Rule 206(4)-5; Political Contributions by Certain Investment Advisers)

Covered Associate means (i) any general partner, managing member, executive officer of the Firm, or other individual with a similar status or function; (ii) any employee who solicits a government entity for the adviser and any person who supervises, directly or indirectly, such employee; and (iii) any political action committee (“PAC”) controlled by the adviser or by any of its covered associates.The rule contains three major prohibitions: (1) if the adviser or a covered associate makes a contribution to an official of a government entity who is in a position to influence the award of the government entity’s business, the adviser is prohibited from receiving compensation for providing advisory services to that government entity for two years thereafter (otherwise known as a ‘timeout” period); (2) an adviser and its “covered associates” are prohibited from engaging in a broad range of fundraising activities for Government Officials or political parties in the localities where the adviser is providing to or seeking business from a Government Client; and (3) limits the ability of an adviser and its covered associates to compensate a third party (such as a placement agent) to solicit advisory business or an investment from a government entity client unless the third party is a registered broker-dealer, registered municipal adviser or registered investment adviser.

Covered Associate means (a) any general partner, managing member or executive officer, or other individual of the Firm with a similar status or function; (b) any employee of the Firm who solicits a Government Entity for the Firm and any person who supervises, directly or indirectly, such employee; and (c) any political action committee (“PAC”) controlled by the Firm or by any such persons described in (a) or (b).

Covered Associate means (i) any general partner, managing member, executive officer of the Firm, or other individual with a similar status or function; (ii) any employee who solicits a government entity for the adviser and any person who supervises, directly or indirectly, such employee; and (iii) any political action committee ("PAC") controlled by the adviser or by any of its covered associates.

Covered Associate means the Firm’s (a) general partner, managing member or executive officer, or other individual with a similar status or function; (b) any Employee who solicits a Government Entity for the Firm, (c) any person who supervises, directly or indirectly, any such Employee; or (d) any political action committee controlled by the Firm or by any of its Covered Associates.

Covered Associate means a “covered employee” within the meaning of Section 162(m)(3) of the Code, or any successor provision thereto.

Covered Associate means an Access Person of the Firm.