Adviser John VanEngelenhoven left his employer, Charles Schwab, to open an RIA that custodies with TD Ameritrade Institutional. Now he faces a FINRA arbitration and preliminary injunction as Schwab accuses him of soliciting at least one of the company’s clients. VanEngelenhoven is among several ex-Schwab advisors who have been taken to court this year over client solicitation.
For many years, brokerage and bank Charles Schwab has been providing financial services to investors. However, Schwab advisors have been collecting higher fees from clients than previously reported. Amidst several widespread changes throughout the financial services industry, Schwab Advisor Services Executive Vice President Bernie Clark claims that advisors offer an increased amount of services in order to collect higher fees.
A rough four weeks for a $750 million team ended with the advisors out of a job and barred from soliciting their clients.
In a strange twist, Morgan Stanley has terminated a veteran team of investment advisers that who acquired less than three weeks ago from Charles Schwab & Co. Morgan Stanley parted ways with the newly hired team of advisers after they received a temporary restraining order (TRO) and preliminary injunction from their former firm, Charles Schwab.
A Texas investment adviser and his firm have filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas against Charles Schwab Corp. claiming that the firm poached his clients after terminating him over a false story.
Charles Schwab and Co. Inc. filed a lawsuit against two former employees and a Florida advisory firm, alleging they stole client information and used it to solicit clients.
