Saturday, July 7, 2018

Peter Elish Investment Firm On The Headline Of The News

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 an independent company they did not comply the standard quota system which the other companies have been using. Due to this, they were able to develop a stock picking system which is beneficial to both the management and its customers. This alone made them on top, surpassing some of their biggest competitors.

Going back into the case. After the investigation was made by the state of Bureau of Securities Compliance and Examinations, the result was positive, that indeed the firm has done some violations. This ended up with a voluntary consent agreement made by the firm itself to save them from further punishment.

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 according to the court documents being presented during the court trails on March 29, Peter failed in supervising the agents of his company. In addition, the broker dealer firm was not maintaining the different ways of written supervisory procedures which is crucial in a business. This alone made clear that some factors were not met by them.

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.

As the business owner he was supposed to make sure that their materials is not only current but accurate too, however, was not able to meet that expected level. The investment firm has been doing the business starting from 1989. At the time of the chaos, they called him as to what they have found one but the man and his company did not respond right away.




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