D.C. Lawyer Blass to Head SEC Division Regulating Mutual Funds

By Andrew Ramonas, Bloomberg BNA

Ropes & Gray attorney Dalia Blass will head the SEC Division of Investment Management, which regulates mutual and exchange-traded funds and investment advisers, the agency said Aug. 31.

The same day, the Securities and Exchange Commission named American University finance professor Jeffrey Harris chief economist and director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, and Chairman Jay Clayton tapped seven individuals for his executive staff.

Blass, who is counsel in Ropes & Gray’s Washington office, formerly was an assistant chief counsel in the division.

According to her law firm biography, she focuses on advising ...