FINRA Fines Summit Equities $325,000 Over Variable Annuity Sales

Posted on May 23rd, 2017 at 11:00 AM
FINRA Fines Summit Equities $325,000 Over Variable Annuity Sales

From the Desk of Jim Eccleston at Eccleston Law LLC:

New Jersey based broker-dealer, Summit Equities Inc., has been fined by FINRA for over $325,000 allegedly for failing to reasonably supervise brokers’ sales of multi-share class variable annuities from 2011 to 2015. According to FINRA, Summit sold 1,037 individual variable annuity contracts to customers and about 45% of the contracts were L-shares.

FINRA also accused the BD of failing to provide training to its registered representatives and principals on the sale of these annuities.

Overall, the sale of L-share variable annuities have been on the decline as a result of the potential implementation of the fiduciary rule, which would place more restrictive sales practice and disclosure conditions on those products.

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