Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement Division Co-Director Andrew Ceresney said investment advisors are one of his unit’s priorities.

In addition to “traditional” areas of advisor regulatory concern, Ceresney said today that his section will be taking more initiatives, including examining the processes fund boards use to approve investment advisor fees.

He did not elaborate.

 “I’ll have a speech on it someday,” Ceresney said.

On the SEC’s recent push to have more defendants in settlements acknowledge wrongdoing, Ceresney said most cases will continue to be resolved with the company or individual neither admitting nor denying the charges to more quickly bring payment to victimized investors and to save the SEC money.

His comments came at the Securities Enforcement 2013 Forum in Washington, D.C.

During the session, SEC Chairman Mary Jo White called the development of fiduciary rules for pension fund advisors a major focus of the agency, but she said she couldn’t predict when rules would be proposed.

White said the SEC will be aggressively pursuing minor violations of its rules as well as major ones.

“[Investors] want someone who understands that even the smallest infractions have victims, and that the smallest infractions are very often just the first step toward bigger ones down the road,” she said. “Minor violations that are overlooked or ignored can feed bigger ones and, perhaps more importantly, can foster a culture where laws are increasingly treated as toothless guidelines.”