After a long, checkered career, Clay Hoffman has been barred from the securities industry by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). According to FINRA, Mr. Hoffman […]
It’s really pretty simple. There are two types of investment accounts, accounts where the advisor has to ask permission before placing trades (non-discretionary) and accounts where […]
Most financial advisors claim that they put their investors’ interests first but, all too often, customers are a distant second place to an advisor’s own interests. […]
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) censured and fined Dougherty & Company after one of its “top producers” allegedly ripped off elderly investors by executing hundreds […]
According to a Complaint recently filed by FINRA (the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), Equinox Securities may be responsible for decimating the retirement accounts of several investors. […]
David Woods Unsworth Jr. of Belvedere, California was recently fined $25,000 and suspended for six months, according to reports from Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA. […]
James Madden, a financial advisor with Raymond James & Associates, has been fined and suspended for unauthorized trading in investors’ accounts. FINRA rules as well as […]
Armen Bahadourian, formerly registered with UnionBanc, has been fined $10,000 for violating FINRA rules, and must pay back $6,880.75 in disgorgement of wrongly earned commissions. Bahadourian […]
Leonard E. Tanner (“Tanner”) in Indianapolis, Indiana has been fined $15,000 and suspended from the securities industry for making unauthorized transactions in customer accounts. Tanner made […]
A financial advisor with Morgan Stanley has been punished for making sale transactions in an investor’s account, without the investor’s consent. Shawn Richardson forced the investor […]