Soreide Law Group is investigating possible investor claims against Delio Londono (also known as Del Londono) (CRD: 2695744, La Crescenta, California). Specifically, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) BrokerCheck discloses that investors disputed the sales practices of the securities broker, who worked for Sagepoint Financial Inc. Notably, investors allege sales practice violations in these disputes, including […]

Centaurus Broker Marc Korsch Possibly Sold Bad Investments The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) reports troubling information in regard to securities broker Marc F. Korsch (CRD#: 5525226, Sarasota, Florida). Namely, this securities broker, who worked for Trustmont Financial Group Inc. (2011 to 2014) and Centaurus Financial Inc. (2014 to 2021), is involved in investor disputes […]

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced that it has fined Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. and its affiliate, Securities Management & Research, Inc., of Marion, Iowa, a combined total of $775,000. This fine was for supervisory deficiencies, which included Berthel Fisher's failure to supervise the sale of non-traded real estate investment trusts […]

A REIT, Real Estate Investment Trust, is a company that owns, finances, and in the majority of cases, operates income-producing real estate. They can be publically traded, private, or public but not listed. The two main types of REITs are 1) Mortgage REITs which deal in investment and ownership of property mortgages. The revenue is […]

PAUL C. LARSEN (CRD# 1066833), formerly of VSR Financial Services, has had a long history of complaints with FINRA. He also has been sued many times for selling Tenant-in-Common (TIC) investments, non-traded REITs, and oil and gas investments. Larsen was permanently barred by FINRA from acting as a broker or otherwise associating with firms that […]

FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, will soon publish the latest in a series of warnings to investors, this time about the risks of alternative securities. Richard Ketchum, chairman and chief executive of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, told Reuters reporters and editors attending Reuters Global Wealth Management Summit that low interest rates and worries […]

Inland American Real Estate Trust Inc., the largest nontraded real estate investment trust, (also known as nontraded REITs), worth $10.8 billion, reported on March 13, 2013, that some of their investors are alleging the REIT's management failed in its fiduciary responsibility, resulting in false valuations and excess fees being paid to the REIT's business manager. […]

Financial regulators are confronting investor frauds that are giving retirement savers steep losses on complex products that until a few years ago were aimed only at the most sophisticated investors, writes Nathaniel Popper in a New York Times article from Feb. 11, 2013. These victims are among the millions of Americans whose mutual funds and […]

Soreide Law Group is currently investigating the Wells Timberland REIT for the investors who suffered financial losses. FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, fined Wells Investment Securities $300,000 for improper sales materials when selling the Wells Timberland REIT, from May 2007 to September 2009. (Wells Investment Securities neither admitted nor denied the charges.) FINRA stated […]