Chenery Compliance Group
Chenery Compliance Group is a boutique outsourced-compliance provider for SEC-registered and exempt-reporting advisers, private-fund sponsors, and investment companies. Its three service levels range from named CCO coverage to lighter recurring assistance, combining senior compliance personnel, team-based delivery, systematic calendar management, and adviser-focused software.
Overview
Chenery Compliance Group provides recurring regulatory support to investment advisers, exempt reporting advisers, private fund managers, registered funds, and series trusts. Its model is closer to an outsourced compliance department than to occasional project consulting, with senior professionals, multiple team members, scheduled program work, and supporting technology.
Three service levels let a client choose named CCO coverage, substantial co-managed support, or a lighter advisory arrangement. The published comparison makes the differences more visible than they are on many consulting websites, though a proposal is still necessary to define ownership of individual tasks.
Who it may suit
The most comprehensive service may suit an SEC-registered adviser that does not want to staff a complete internal compliance function. Private fund and institutional managers may also value recurring access to consultants who have held operating and CCO roles.
Firms with an internal CCO can consider the middle or lighter tier for program administration, filings, reviews, training, and recurring advice. The sources emphasize SEC-regulated and fund organizations; they provide less evidence about small state-only advisers or registration-only projects.
RIA compliance services
Across its packages, Chenery describes recurring meetings, regulatory updates, manual maintenance, compliance-calendar administration, training, and annual regulatory reporting. Broader tiers add quarterly reporting, committee meetings, annual risk assessment, Rule 206(4)-7 review, remediation planning, policies revisions, and Code of Ethics administration.
The service table also identifies electronic-communications and marketing-material review. The most extensive tier includes the named CCO role, while the other levels leave that position with the client.
How the engagement works
Pilot is the fullest arrangement and includes Chenery as named CCO. Co-Pilot covers much of the same recurring program work while retaining the client’s CCO. Navigator is a narrower support package with limited annual consulting time and optional annual review work.
Chenery says it assigns at least two people to an engagement and uses a lifecycle process to organize tasks, deliverables, and deadlines. Adviser-focused compliance software supports calendar workflow and Code of Ethics administration. Buyers should confirm which system, licenses, integrations, and operational tasks accompany each tier.
What stands out
The clearest differentiator is the combination of published service tiers, team-based coverage, and structured technology. A firm can compare named CCO, co-managed, and advisory support without treating every engagement as an undefined custom retainer.
The focus on institutional managers, private funds, and registered investment companies also distinguishes Chenery from consultancies aimed mainly at new state-registered RIAs.
What to clarify before contacting
An RIA should map every recurring obligation to Chenery, the internal CCO, or another provider. Particular attention should go to filings, testing, communications review, Code of Ethics administration, remediation, regulatory examinations, and work that is optional in the chosen tier.
It should also confirm assigned personnel, availability outside scheduled meetings, backup coverage, technology costs, data ownership, record export, implementation effort, and how service scope changes as the firm adds strategies, funds, employees, or registrations.