TCFG Investment Advisors Charged by SEC | Goodman & Nekvasil P.A. May Recover Investor Losses
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Laguna Niguel, California-based TCFG Investment Advisors, LLC (TCFG), TCFG’s affiliated broker-dealer TCFG Wealth Management, LLC (TCFG Wealth), and Richard James Roberts – their CEO, president, and managing member – with making materially false and misleading statements and omissions related to fee markups charged to TCFG’s advisory clients.
According to the SEC’s complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, from June 2014 through April 2020, TCFG and Roberts breached their fiduciary duty to advisory clients. As alleged, TCFG and Roberts disclosed that TCFG Wealth “may” receive portions of the fees charged to TCFG accounts by its unaffiliated clearing and custody firm when, in fact, Roberts had directed that firm to charge TCFG clients significant markup fees that were paid to TCFG Wealth. The complaint alleges that TCFG and Roberts later disclosed the existence of markups, but continued to mislead TCFG clients by claiming that it was only imposed “in some limited instances.” Roberts and TCFG allegedly knew, or were reckless and negligent for not knowing, that the clearing and custody firm’s ticket charges were instead marked up approximately 60 percent of the time. The complaint further alleges that TCFG – for which Roberts served as chief compliance officer – failed to implement written policies and procedures reasonably designed to prevent the sorts of disclosure and conflict of interest violations that arose from these practices. According to the complaint, Roberts used TCFG Wealth to aid and abet TCFG’s and Roberts’s violations.
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