A rough four weeks for a $750 million team ended with the advisors out of a job and barred from soliciting their clients.
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A rough four weeks for a $750 million team ended with the advisors out of a job and barred from soliciting their clients.
In a strange twist, Morgan Stanley has terminated a veteran team of investment advisers that who acquired less than three weeks ago from Charles Schwab & Co. Morgan Stanley parted ways with the newly hired team of advisers after they received a temporary restraining order (TRO) and preliminary injunction from their former firm, Charles Schwab.
FINRA has barred Denver, Colorado broker, Daniel Todd Levine for failing to cooperate in an investigation regarding allegations that he engaged in undisclosed outside business activities while working at Morgan Stanley.
Merrill Lynch has announced that it will expand fiduciary services for 401(k) clients by allowing more financial advisors to manage retirement plan menus on a discretionary basis
Recently, regional firms such as Raymond James, Stifel, Ameriprise, and Janney Montgomery Scott have become a favored destination for many successful wirehouse advisors who have transitioned away from the wirehouses.
A Texas judge has denied a temporary restraining order (TRO) filed by Morgan Stanley to prevent two Dallas, Texas-based investment advisers, who left the firm, from soliciting their former clients at their new firm, an independent broker-dealer.
In 2018, FINRA fined broker-dealers a total of $68 million, which was a 5% increase from $65 million in 2017, while the average fine per case increased in 2018 to $107,000 from only $65,000 in 2017.
As Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS Financial Services, Inc. have recently pulled back their recruiting efforts in order to focus on growing assets and revenue internally, firms such as Wells Fargo Advisors, LPL Financial and Cetera Financial Group are seeking the opportunity to gain ground by offering attractive recruiting bonuses.
Once overlooked compared to the registered investment adviser and the independent broker-dealer market, regional brokerage firms quietly are making comeback due to recruiting gains at the expense of wirehouses.
FINRA has fined Morgan Stanley Smith Barney $10 million for anti-money laundering program failures under the Bank Secrecy Act and for its failure to comply with Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) fined JPMorgan Chase & Co. $1.8 million for failing to prevent and detect misconduct by its relationship managers during 24 over-the-counter (OTC) bond transactions between November 2018 and September 2019.
Federal and state authorities are investigating Next Level Holdings and Yield Wealth, two investment firms accused of offering high-yield financial products now facing significant turmoil, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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