World Equity Group Is Charged for Failing to Supervise Sales of Risky Investments

Posted on February 27th, 2015 at 12:42 PM

From the Desk of Jim Eccleston at Eccleston Law Offices:

FINRA has accused World Equity Group, an Illinois based brokerage firm, of failing to supervise the sale of non-traditional Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), failing to properly document due diligence performed on private placements.

ETFs are used to track the performance of an index, and replicate the market’s performance. Those investments are typically unsuitable for retail investors who hold them for long term period in a volatile market. So firms must have strict supervisory standards in place to track the sales of ETFs. FINRA alleged that World Equity Group did not have adequate supervisory standards in place.

Private placements are private offering securities that are mostly invested by a small number of chosen investors. World Group was accused of not doing their due diligence for those vehicles as well, and not supervising properly.

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