From August 2010 to September 2015 Network 1 Financial failed to establish and enforce a supervisory system reasonably designed to supervise advisor sales of complex investments such as leveraged, inverse, and inverse-leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs). These are the regulatory findings that Network 1 neither denies or admits. This issue has impacted over one hundreds securities accounts at Network 1. If you are a Network 1 investor please call 1-866-817-0201 for a free and confidential consultation.
Non-Traditional ETFs are complicated investment vehicles suitable for only a small section of the investing public. Such ETFs are designed to return a multiple of an underlying index, Such as the Russell 2000, S&P 500 or VIX, the inverse of that benchmark, or both, over the course of a day.
The performance of such ETFs over periods of time longer than a single trading session be very volatile and be substantially risky. The results, as FINRA states, “can differ significantly from the performance . . . of their underlying index or benchmark during the same period of time.”
FINRA, the regulator of securities brokerages in the United States, has warn brokerages and their advisors that NonTraditional ETFs “are typically not suitable for retail investors who plan to hold them for more than one trading session, particularly in volatile markets.”
Approximately 29 Network 1 financial advisors/brokers traded such ETFs in 167 customer accounts. These representatives executed 645 ETF transactions totaling approximately $48 million in possibly unsuitable trades.
Transactions in Non-Traditional ETFs during the referenced period, Network 1 Financial had inadequate supervisory procedures regarding the suitability and supervision of Non-Traditional ETFs transactions.
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