Highest Paying Broker/Dealers Ranked by average payout per rep, per year 1.Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. 2.Commonwealth Financial Network 3.VSR Financial Services Inc. 4.Geneos Wealth Management Inc. 5.Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network Largest Broker/Dealers Ranked by revenue 1.LPL Financial LLC 2.Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. 3.Raymond James Financial Services Inc. 4.Lincoln Financial Network 5.Commonwealth Financial Network Broker/Dealer […]

The following information was obtained on FINRA’s website under “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions, July, 2013,” by Soreide Law Group, a Securities Arbitration Law Firm, (888) 760-6552. Glen W. Carnes (CRD #5486261, Registered Representative, Orange, California) was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. Without admitting or denying the findings, Carnes consented […]

The following information was obtained on FINRA’s website under “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions, June, 2013,” by Soreide Law Group, a Securities Arbitration Law Firm, (888) 760-6552. Sharon Mae Perdue (CRD #2537681, Registered Principal, Longmont, Colorado) was fined $15,000 and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for two years. Without admitting […]

The following information appeared on FINRA’s website under “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions, June, 2013.” Robert Ronald Liggero (CRD #4623608, Registered Representative, Atlantic Beach, Florida) submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent in which he was fined $5,000 and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for 20 business days. Without […]

BLAKE BANCROFT RICHARDS (CRD #4051402) Blake Richards of Buford, Georgia, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with violations of the federal securities laws for misappropriating investor funds. In May, the SEC filed an emergency action seeking a temporary restraining order and other emergency relief in federal court against Richards. The SEC’s complaint […]

With mounting pressure from regulators, broker/dealers are making changes to how they sell alternative investments. VSR Financial Services Inc., Berthel Fisher & Co. Financial Services Inc. and the Cetera Financial Group Inc., which has four independent-contractor broker-dealers under its umbrella, this year have revised policies or added new guidelines and procedures for the sale of […]

FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., is alerting broker-dealers to a number of shortcomings in how they communicate with investors about non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs). According to FINRA, broker-dealers are falling short in a some areas, including distributing materials that contain misleading and inaccurate statements about the potentials of investing in illiquid […]

The Soreide Law Group, PLLC, a Securities Arbitration Law Firm, (888) 760-6552, found the following information on FINRA’s website under “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions, April, 2013.” Arthur Apostol (CRD #2265647, Registered Representative, Ashford, Connecticut) was fined $5,000 and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for three months. Without admitting or […]

Soreide Law Group- Securities Arbitration Law Firm - (888) 760-6552 stated in a blog from this website dated March 13th., 2013, LPL Financial, LLC, is now the nation’s fourth-largest brokerage firm — after Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch — and the largest in much of rural America. LPL’s explosive growth has brought the […]