FINRA Panel Awarded Investors More than $1M for Sales or REITS and Other Complex ProductsIn a case that points up many of the problems that have been plaguing the securities industry for years, a FINRA panel of arbitrators awarded six investors more than $1M in relief after they alleged that a financial advisor and three executives for Berthel Fisher & Co sold them unsuitable complex products.The panel found that the Berthel executives, Thomas Berthel, Ronald Brendengen, and… [read post]