January 6, 2016
Posted January 28, 2016
J.P. Morgan’s brokerage business will pay $4 million to settle charges that it falsely claimed that its advisors were compensated “based on our clients’ performance.” An SEC investigation found that J.P. Morgan Securities LLCdid not pay representatives based on client performance. Rather, advisors were paid a salary and a discretionary bonus based on a number of factors, none of which were tied to portfolio performance. SEC
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