May 2017-Angleton, TX
The FINRA records of RIcky R. Moore, a stockbroker who is employed by Sagepoint Financial disclose a final regulatory event, 3 prior customer disputes and a termination from employment.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the agency that licenses and regulates stockbrokers and brokerage firms. FINRA requires brokers and brokerage firms to report customer complaints and disputes as well as regulatory sanctions. In addition brokers are required to disclose certain financial matters such as personal bankruptcies, judgments and liens.
In 1/2017 FINRA suspended Moore for four months and fined him $37,131 to resolve allegations that he failed to disclose to his firm his outside business activities involving the facilitation of a church bond offering for a church. FINRA alleged that Moore made a false and misleading statement on his firm’s annual compliance questionnaire which asked if he had participated in raising capital.
In FINRA case 12-02353 a customer of Moore’s prior employer, LPL Financial was paid $60,000 to settle claims that they requested Moore place them in a conservative portfolio but he recommended a portfolio overly concentrated in variable annuities and REITs (real estate investment trusts).
Ricky Moore has been employed by Sagepoint Financial since 12/2013. His prior employers include Securities America, Commonwealth Financial Network and LPL Financial Corp. Moore discloses a business affiliation with Oak Financial Group in Angleton, TX.
In 9/2013, Moore was ‘permitted to resign’ from Commonwealth Financial Network who made the following allegation on his FINRA record: “RR was the president of an outside business activity that subsequently engaged another broker-dealer to issue bonds on behalf of the entity, distributed a notice of the sale of bonds on behalf of the entity, and failed to provide prior written notice to or receive written approval from the firm, in violation of FINRA Rules 3270, and 2210..”
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