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Saturday, July 7, 2018

By Martha Baker


Known investment firm in Canonsburg has been the talk of the town lately after they were featured in headlines of newspapers which involves a case settlement. The investment firm of Peter Elish was investigated according to law after allegedly operating illegally. Many were astonished with what happened as the company had a lot of satisfied customers, so no one saw what was coming.

Before going into the story, here is a brief background about this company and the man behind all of this. Elish who is the founder of the company created the independent stock brokerage firm together with his father in 1989. When they decide to create it, they were not that knowledgeable at first on what they are getting their selves into.

As mentioned above, their company is independent. This made them to not use what the other brokerage firm is using which is the quota system. Now, this allowed him to develop a stock picking system which was beneficial for him and for the customers too. This has become their turning point for their business to boom.

Continuing into the news, the allegations that were fired to them were proven to be correct after the investigation which was conducted by the BSCE. With this, the company decided to come up with a consent agreement that they are going to pay for the violations that they have done as their price to pay.

To be exact, the investment security firm from Canonsburg has to pay a huge sum which is 5,000 dollars. This is for both the legal and investigative costs instead of a lawsuit for supposedly operating under the violation of Security State Act of 1972. The order along the consent agreement allegation was not denied and admitted by Elish himself.

The court documents that were filed on March 29 to the state of court stated that Peter failed in supervising his agents reasonably. Along with that the broker dealer company also failed to maintain their written supervisory procedures in a lot of ways which is an important matter when you do this kind of business.

The investigation that was done by the Department of Banking and Securities bureau started on March 2016. According to them, the written procedure done by Peter was not only unorganized but also failed in keeping up information whenever there are changes which is a rule from the Financial Industrial Regulatory Authority.

Financial Industrial Regulatory Authority is a private corporation. They are the one who is assigned by the United States government to regulate the industry of broker dealer all over the country. Still based from the court documents, the broker dealer was not able to comply the rules in regard to outside business activities supervision.

When you are on this kind of business your materials should be always in trend, and they have to be accurate. Now, both accuracy and current was not met and their firm has been on the operation since year 1989. The moment the law discovered their violation they called Mr. Elish right away however no answers was made. They have already given statement for the people.




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