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Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated to pay more than $1.5 million to customers who claimed that their Financial Advisor, Kenneth Blumberg unsuitably concentrated their portfolios

March 4, 2020 | Dan Miller

Visions from im 5 Miller Law Group – Miller Stern Lawyers, LLC is currently investigating allegations against Kenneth Blumberg and Stifel and has successfully litigated against Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated and current financial advisor Kenneth Blumberg (CRD# 1585520) pertaining to a multitude of allegations including taking discretion in customer accounts without authority, over-concentration in sectors and individual securities, breach of fiduciary duty, unsuitable investments and other securities violations. Blumberg was registered with Stifel during the time of the events, located in the downtown Baltimore office of Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated. Please call 410 Law Firm for more information.

A FINRA arbitration panel has ordered Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated to pay more than $1.5 million to four customers who claimed that their Financial Advisor, Kenneth Blumberg (CRD# 1585520) unsuitably concentrated their portfolios in biotechnology and healthcare stocks at levels exceeding 80%. It was further alleged that while the customers’ portfolios were profitable, Mr. Blumberg failed to protect gains in the account, which was a violation of his duties as a fiduciary, after which time the value in the accounts deteriorated by approximately $1 Million. The case against Stifel asserted that it failed to properly supervise Blumberg. In the Arbitration, the customers recovered 100% of their losses plus approximately $500,000 in consequential damages reflecting what the accounts would have gained from the time they withdrew from Stifel as customers through the date of the Arbitration had the gains been protected and suitably reinvested.

“The concentration risk and asset allocation defects associated with this investment strategy should have been ongoing ‘red flags’,” attorney Daniel J. Miller wrote in the Statement of Claim against Stifel and the broker that was obtained by AdvisorHub. “Yet, if they ever took notice, they failed to contact claimants and failed to take any corrective measures.”

Claimants Awarded More Than $1.5 Million Against Stifel in Failure-to-Supervise Arbitration

October 8, 2019 | Dan Miller

Miller Law Group – Miller Stern Lawyers, LLC successfully litigated against Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated and current financial advisor Kenneth Blumberg (CRD# 1585520) pertaining to a multitude of allegations including taking discretion in customer accounts without authority, over-concentration in sectors and individual securities, breach of fiduciary duty, unsuitable investments and other securities violations. Blumberg was registered with Stifel during the time of the events, located in the downtown Baltimore office of Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated.

A FINRA arbitration panel has ordered Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated to pay more than $1.5 million to four customers who claimed that their Financial Advisor, Kenneth Blumberg (CRD# 1585520) unsuitably concentrated their portfolios in biotechnology and healthcare stocks at levels exceeding 80%. It was further alleged that while the customers’ portfolios were profitable, Mr. Blumberg failed to protect gains in the account, which was a violation of his duties as a fiduciary, after which time the value in the accounts deteriorated by approximately $1 Million. The case against Stifel asserted that it failed to properly supervise Blumberg. In the Arbitration, the customers recovered 100% of their losses plus approximately $500,000 in consequential damages reflecting what the accounts would have gained from the time they withdrew from Stifel as customers through the date of the Arbitration had the gains been protected and suitably reinvested.

“The concentration risk and asset allocation defects associated with this investment strategy should have been ongoing ‘red flags’,” attorney Daniel J. Miller wrote in the Statement of Claim against Stifel and the broker that was obtained by AdvisorHub. “Yet, if they ever took notice, they failed to contact claimants and failed to take any corrective measures.”

$14 Million From J.P. Morgan to Settle Customer Claim Against Advisor Antoine Souma

August 20, 2019 | Dan Miller

Bull Bear Miller Stern Lawyers, LLC, a Maryland Securities and Broker Fraud Law Firm is currently investigating allegations by all clients of J.P. Morgan Securities and Advisor Antine Souma relating to failure to supervise, unsuitable trading and discretionary trading allegations. J.P. Morgan Securities has paid $14 million to settle a claim that, among other things, it failed to supervise Antoine Souma, CRD#: 4210987 , according to regulatory filings.

Antoine Souma, “vehemently denies” the allegations, according to his BrokerCheck report.

The client alleged that over approximately three years, Souma engaged in excessive and unsuitable trading, discretionary trading, falsified performance reports, failed to extend a promised credit line, breach of fiduciary duty, misrepresentation and omission of material facts, breach of contract, constructive fraud, failure to supervise, violation of state and federal securities laws and FINRA rules, and promissory estoppel, according to BrokerCheck.