Brian Harris Brunhaver (CRD# 2498928 Snomish, WA) has been barred by FINRA for allegedly sending and receiving business-related e-mails on his personal e-mail account, which is against his member firm’s policies. Allegedly these emails sent by Brunhaver to his client contained false statements about a real estate investment trust (REIT). These statements incorrectly assured the […]

Pacific West Securities, Inc., a sizable independent broker-dealer with about 290 affiliated reps and advisers, is shutting down due to thin margins and high costs of doing business, with the reps moving to a broker-dealer in Cetera Financial Group, writes Bruce Kelly in a Dec. 6, 2011, ariticle for InvesmentNews.com. Kelly writes that Pacific West Securities […]