- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Aaron Nicodemus2024-09-05T18:19:00
Broker-dealer Nationwide Planning Associates and two affiliated investment advisers impeded potential whistleblowers from reporting misconduct to the Securities and Exchange Commission and have agreed to settle the charges for a combined $240,000.
New Jersey-based Nationwide Planning Associates will pay $70,000, investment adviser NPA Asset Management will pay $160,000, and state-registered investment adviser Blue Point Strategic Wealth Management will pay $10,000, the SEC said Wednesday in a press release.
The firms asked 11 retail clients to sign confidentiality agreements in connection with payments made by the entities to the clients’ investment accounts. The agreements contained “provisions that impeded clients from reporting potential securities law violations to the SEC by permitting communications only where the SEC first initiated an inquiry,” the SEC said.
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