Triad Advisors to Pay $194,000 in Fines and Restitution for Allowing Churning of Accounts

Triad Advisors to Pay $194,000 in Fines and Restitution for Allowing Churning of Accounts

Triad Advisors to Pay $194,000 in Fines and Restitution for Allowing Churning of Accounts 150 150 Robert Rex, Esq.

February 2020-Norcross, GA

FINRA reports that Triad Advisors,LLC,  a national, independent broker-dealer and multi-custodial SEC-Registered Investment Advisor, headquartered in Atlanta, has been fined and ordered to pay restitution to customers totalling $194,000 for inadequate supervision of its brokers who engaged in short term trading of mutual funds and variable annuities.

This practice is known as churning or switching and is generally done by financial advisors to generate commissions. According to regulators, “from June 2015 through December 2017, Triad failed to establish, maintain, and enforce reasonable supervisory procedures that were reasonably designed to identify possible inappropriate rates of VA exchanges” FINRA noted, adding that over time Triad had also fallen short in filing the necessary disclosures related to customer arbitrations and complaints.

At the time covered by the Finra settlement, Triad was owned by Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc.

Poor supervision of broker dealers is a longstanding issue for the retail securities industry.   

In 2016, MetLife Securities was hammered with a $25 million fine by FINRA for their enormous compliance failings when changing clients from one annuity to another.

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