ATTENTION INVESTORS: Customer Claim Against Boca Raton, FL Broker BRETT ELLIS Brett David Ellis (CRD#: 5293493, Boca Raton, Florida) is a GMS Group, LLC financial advisor or broker. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) shows that Ellis joined The GMS Group’s Boca Raton, Florida offices on May 2, 2007. Investors should take caution if dealing […]

ATTENTION INVESTORS: Customer Complaints Against TCM Securities Broker Jim Heafner James Hal Heafner a/k/a Jim Heafner (CRD#: 4837072, Charlotte, North Carolina) is an ex-Taylor Capital Management Inc. (now known as TCM Securities, Inc.) broker, and president of Heafner Financial Solutions, whose sales practices have come under fire lately. Heafner, who has appeared on TV stations […]

A FINRA arbitration panel ordered Wells Fargo & Co.'s (WFC) retail brokerage unit to pay retired real-estate broker, Philip Lovell, $1.8 million for losses tied to investments in soda and pharmaceutical companies. Lovell accused Wells Fargo Advisors and Wells Fargo broker, John Bulkley Meacham, of having him invest his money in thinly traded securities that […]

Soreide Law Group, PLLC, was notified by FINRA today that the clients they represented against Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC (“MSSB”)  were awarded 100% of compensatory damages, in addition to expert fees, pre-judgment interest, and costs.   In a published FINRA award, case number 10-02604, Attorney Lars Soreide, recovered for his clients, who were the heirs and trustees to […]