Articles Tagged with Cetera Investment Services LLC

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint on March 05, 2025.

Claimant alleges unsuitable investment recommendations.

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint on March 05, 2025.

Claimants allege unsuitable investment recommendations.

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint on March 05, 2025.

Claimants allege unsuitable investment recommendations.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Stephen Smith (Smith), currently associated with Cetera Investment Services LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Smith 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 $200,000.00  on August 22, 2024.

Claimant alleges unsuitable investment recommendations with resulted in losses.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Roger Turcotte (Turcotte), currently associated with Cetera Investment Services LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one tax lien, alleging that Turcotte recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a final customer complaint on September 03, 2024.

Without admitting or denying the findings, Turcotte consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that he caused his member firm to make and preserve inaccurate books and records by mismarking as unsolicited order tickets for equity transactions that he recommended to his customers. The findings stated that four of the transactions Turcotte mismarked as unsolicited involved solicited purchases of low-priced OTC securities. However, the firm prohibited representatives from recommending such securities to their customers. Turcotte received $3,696.97 in commissions for these four transactions which, had he marked them accurately, would have been cancelled.

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint on September 27, 2024.

The customer purchased a Prudential IUL policy based on representations that it included a no-lapse guarantee until age 120, but it was later discovered that the policy’s no-lapse guarantee only extended for 20 years, leading to dissatisfaction and the need to pursue a new policy with the desired terms.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Gihan Fernando (Fernando), currently associated with Cetera Investment Services LLC, has at least 68 disclosable events. These events include 67 customer complaints, one tax lien, alleging that Fernando recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $50,000.00 on October 09, 2024.

Complainant alleges that certain features of the product were misrepresented during sales process on or around August 2016.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Andrew Pandis (Pandis), currently associated with Cetera Investment Services LLC, has at least 5 disclosable events. These events include 5 customer complaints, alleging that Pandis 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 $260,000.00 on December 11, 2024.

Unsuitable recommendation and overconcentration of assets into a single highly-speculative alternative investment.

The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP are investigating BrokerCheck records reports that Broker David Sosa (Sosa), currently employed by Cetera Investment Services LLC 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), Sosa’s most recent customer complaint alleges that Sosa 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 December 02, 2024.

Client states he did not authorize the purchase of structures products

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