Previously financial advisor Benjamin Fuchs (Fuchs), previously employed by brokerage firm Silver Oak Securities, Incorporated has been subject to at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint. According to a BrokerCheck reports most of the recent customer complaints concern either corporate debt securities or alternative investments such as direct participation products (DPPs) like business development companies (BDCs), non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs), oil & gas programs, annuities, and private placements. The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP have represented hundreds of investors who suffered losses caused by these types of high risk, low reward products.
FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $5,000.00 on November 02, 2023.
Claimant states, “The nature of the investment products, the concentration issue, the unsuitability, heighted supervision required, and the risks associated with the illiquidity, lack of transparency, and high-commission product – disguised and misrepresented as a suitable investment strategy… But for their recommendations and negligent misrepresentations and omissions of material facts, Claimant would not have incurred the unnecessary losses and damages in this case.”