“Following last month’s report by the SEC to the House Appropriations Committee on private arbitration (and the use of forced arbitration clauses) in the RIA industry, investor advocates vow that if the commission won’t mandate more industry transparency, they’ll push Congress to step in. “I realize there’s all...
“A trade group representing plaintiffs’ lawyers on Tuesday called for the Securities and Exchange Commission to end a “broken” arbitration system for investors bringing claims against registered investment advisors and to force RIAs to be more transparent about customer complaints. The Public Investors Advocate Bar Association...
The Securities and Exchange Commission has no way to track the number of registered investment advisor arbitrations or unpaid arbitration awards, according to a just-released report. Last year, the House Appropriations Committee expressed concerns about the proliferation of mandatory arbitration clauses among SEC-registered investment advisors and...
As President of PIABA, the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, Joe Peiffer has led the fight for federal regulations that would require stockbrokers to place their retirement clients ahead of their own self-interests. That dream may become a reality soon. The Department of Labor has proposed...
Joe Peiffer was recently quoted in On Wall Street about shortfalls in FINRA’s BrokerCheck service. BrokerCheck does not disclose complete information about brokers. Joe, as president of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA), drafted a letter to the SEC, along with Public Citizen and the...
Joe Peiffer was recently quoted in an article that appeared in the magazine Financial Planning. The article concerned brokers’ meaningless self-designations as “retirement specialists.” LPL Financial recently paid a fine of $250,000 in relation to ten of its Massachusetts-based advisers employing the title of “Retirement Income...
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