SEC Charges Cetera with Fraud

“In a case that turns on the adequacy of conflict-of-interest disclosures, the SEC inexplicably excludes many relevant disclosures,” Cetera Advisors and Cetera Advisor Networks wrote in a partial motion to dismiss claims the SEC filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado in August. “In particular, the SEC Read more…

Something Mercenary

Brooke Southall: “There is something mercenary about the way that the former insurance broker-dealers get bought, sold, spruced up and staffed. The (formerly ING) Cetera and (formerly AIG) Advisor Group entities are equal parts grand rafts of human financial advisory potential and leftover insurance broker culture that meant not only selling but favoring the Read more…