Benjamin Edwards In The News
City Wire
The risky, illiquid investments were sold to recent retirees.
Investment News
For years, Lisa Braganca has advocated reforming the way that registered representatives can clear their records of customer complaints. But when the Finra board announced last week that it had approved revisions to a previous proposal for doing so, Braganca was caught off guard.
Financial Planning
A Delaware-based investment advisory firm is facing fraud charges from the SEC over claims that its clients were defrauded in a nearly five-year cherry picking scheme that put more than $1 million in the owner’s pocket.
ABC 15 Arizona
On November 15, 2019, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Erin Otis kept a secret.
The Daily Beast
If you were looking for reasons why members of Congress trading stocks can be a bad look, Rep. Doug Lamborn’s curious, aggressive trading style is a case-study in questionable behavior.
Investment News
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. included a section about Reg BI compliance in its annual report on its examination program. The broker-dealer self-regulator& outlined on pages 26-27 its findings from Reg BI exams, most of which involved shortcomings like brokerages not acting in their customers’ best interests and failing to mitigate conflicts of interest.
Wealth Management
The Securities and Exchange Commission settled charges with six investment advisory firms and six broker/dealers, alleging they did not deliver their Form Customer Relationship Summaries to clients on time; some also didn’t include information required by the SEC, the regulator said.