Arkadios Capital

Broker Thomas Baer in Arkadios Capital Firm Has Customer Complaint

April 21, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP are investigating BrokerCheck records reports that Broker Thomas Baer (Baer), currently employed by Arkadios Capital has been subject to at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint. According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Baer’s most recent customer complaint alleges that Baer recommended unsuitable investments in structured products and makes allegations concerning misconduct relating to the handling of the customer’s accounts.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint on July 22, 2024.

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Broker Jason Stone in Arkadios Capital Firm Has Customer Complaint

April 12, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Jason Stone (Stone), currently associated with Arkadios Capital, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Stone recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint on March 07, 2025.

Trustee alleged breach of fiduciary duty, unsuitable recommendation, and misrepresentation of investment regarding an oil and gas limited partnership purchased eleven years ago.

Broker George Terlizzi in Arkadios Capital Firm Has Customer Complaint

March 5, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker George Terlizzi (Terlizzi), previously associated with Arkadios Capital, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Terlizzi recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint with a damage request of $65,000.00 on January 28, 2025.

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Broker Jason Stone in Arkadios Capital Firm Has Customer Complaint

February 28, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Jason Stone (Stone), currently associated with Arkadios Capital, has at least 2 disclosable events. These events include 2 customer complaints, alleging that Stone recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint with a damage request of $2,000,000.00 on November 06, 2024.

Customer alleges breach of fiduciary duty, lack of suitability, and overconcentration in Alternative Investments. Further allegations are misrepresentation and omission of material facts and lack of supervision.

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Marc Korsch in Firm Arkadios Capital

February 26, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Marc Korsch (Korsch), previously associated with Arkadios Capital, has at least 12 disclosable events. These events include 12 customer complaints, alleging that Korsch recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint with a damage request of $40,000.00 on November 13, 2024.

The customer alleges that in November 2020, the Registered Representative recommended and misrepresented an unsuitable, high-risk, illiquid investment and breached his fiduciary duty.

Broker James Walesa in Arkadios Capital Firm Has Customer Complaint

February 7, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker James Walesa (Walesa), previously associated with Arkadios Capital, has at least 10 disclosable events. These events include 10 customer complaints, alleging that Walesa recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint on November 14, 2024.

Unsuitable recommendations, Claimant is 49 years old and works as a farmer. At the instruction of Respondent’s representatives, he invested a significant portion of his life savings in their fraudulent companies.

Arkadios Advisor Mark Reffett Accused of Unsuitable Investment Practices

September 21, 2022 | by Staff Attorney

The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP are investigating BrokerCheck records reports that Mark Alexander Reffett (Reffett), currently employed by Arkadios Capital, has been subject to at least one customer complaint his career. According to records kept by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Reffett’s customer complaint alleges that Reffett engaged in unsuitable investment strategy and alternative investments.

In May 2020, a customer complained that Reffett violated the securities laws by alleging that Reffett engaged in unsuitable investment strategy and alternative investments beginning in 2014 and continuing to 2016. The claim alleges $1,575,881 in damages and is currently pending.

Alternative investments include a class of products including DDPs such as non-traded REITs, oil and gas offerings, equipment leasing products, and other alternative investments. These alternative investments virtually never profit investors and are almost always unsuitable for investors because of their high fee and cost structure. Brokers selling these products are paid additional commission in order to hype these inferior quality investments providing a perverse incentives to create an artificial market for the investments.

Several studies have confirmed that Non-traded REITs underperform publicly traded REITs with some showing that Non-Traded REITs cannot even beat safe benchmarks, like U.S. treasury bonds. Brokers selling these products must disclose to the investor that non-traded REITs provide lower investment returns than treasuries while being high risk and illiquid – but almost never do. Because investors are not compensated with additional return in exchange for higher risk and illiquidity, these kinds of alternative investment products are rarely, if ever, appropriate for investors. Continue Reading

Enrique Lopez Has Complaints Over Alternative Investments

April 14, 2020 | by Staff Attorney

Advisor Enrique Lopez (Lopez), currently employed by Arkadios Capital, has been subject to at least four customer complaints during the course of his career. According to a BrokerCheck report the customer complaints concern alternative investments such as direct participation products (DPPs) like non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs), oil & gas programs, and private placements. Lopez discloses that he operates a number of outside businesses, some of which are investment related, including Cristobal Eden Partners, LLC, Lopez Brothers Distribution, LLC, Gallop Investment Partners, LLC, Cordero Diego, LLC, and Texas Regional Bank. The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP have represented hundreds of investors who suffered losses caused by these types of high risk, low reward products.

In January 2020 a customer complained that Lopez violated the securities laws by alleging that Lopez engaged in sales practice violations related to recommending investments that were not suitable including non-traded REITs. The claim is currently pending.

In June 2019 a customer complained that Lopez violated the securities laws by alleging that Lopez engaged in sales practice violations related to between 2014 and 2016 advisor misrepresented and recommended unsuitable, concentrated investments in speculative real estate investment trusts. The investor also alleged that the advisor recommended an unsuitable annuity switch. The claim seeks $2,000,000 in damages and is currently pending.

DDPs include products such as non-traded REITs, oil and gas offerings, equipment leasing products, and other alternative investments. These alternative investments virtually never profit investors and are almost always unsuitable for investors because of their high fee and cost structure. Brokers selling these products are paid additional commission in order to hype these inferior quality investments providing a perverse incentives to create an artificial market for the investments. Continue Reading