MAY 2017
According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Chicago based brokerage firm William Blair and Company will pay $4.5 million to settle charges that mutual fund assets were used to pay for the distribution and marketing of fund shares outside of a Rule 12b-1 plan and that the firm failed to disclose it would retain a fee for providing shareholder administrative services to certain funds.
The payment errors cost the funds $1.25 million, which William Blair has repaid with interest.
FINRA records disclose that WIlliam Blair and Company has 25 prior regulatory events. The company has been a FINRA member since 1944.
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