Insigneo Securities

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial advisor Ariel Rivero (Rivero) has at least two disclosable events. These events include two customer complaints alleging that Rivero engaged in some form of investment related misconduct in the handling of the client’s accounts. Rivero is currently employed by Insigneo Securities, LLC (Insigneo). Rivero’s customer complaints alleges that Rivero recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including options, ETFs, and private placements that include LMS Investments LLC and Octagon, S.A.

In April 2022 a customer complained that Rivero violated the securities laws by alleging that Rivero breached their fiduciary duties by recommending, failing to supervise the recommendation of, and misrepresenting the risks and facts related to two unsuitable outside investments. The investor alleged damages of $999,999 and the claim is currently pending.

In September 2021 a customer complained that Rivero violated the securities laws by alleging that Rivero breached fiduciary duties by placing the investor into unsuitable and risky investments; unauthorized use of client funds; and failure to supervise and to maintain adequate system of supervision from late 2020 onward. The claim settled for $260,000.

According to BrokerCheck records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) advisor Felipe Henao Vargas (Henao), currently employed by Insigneo Securities, LLC (Insigneo Securities), has been accused by a customer of investing in a VIX related investment. ETFs that invest in the VIX are part of a group of group of ETFs considered to be leveraged exchanged traded funds or Non-Traditional ETFs.

As a background, Non-Traditional ETFs behave drastically different and have different risk qualities from traditional ETFs. While traditional ETFs seek to mirror an index or benchmark, Non-Traditional ETFs use a combination of derivatives instruments and debt to multiply returns on underlining assets, often attempting to generate 2 to 3 times the return of the underlining asset class. Non-Traditional ETFs are also used to earn the inverse result of the return of the benchmark.

However, the risks of holding Non-Traditional ETFs go beyond merely multiplying the return on the index. Instead, Non-Traditional ETFs are generally designed to be used only for short term trading as opposed to traditional ETFs. The use of leverage employed by these funds causes their long-term values to be dramatically different than the underlying benchmark over long periods of time. For example, between December 1, 2008, and April 30, 2009, the Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas Index gained two percent while the ProShares Ultra Oil and Gas, a fund seeking to deliver twice the index’s daily return fell six percent. In another example, the ProShares UltraShort Oil and Gas, seeks to deliver twice the inverse of the index’s daily return fell by 26 percent over the same period.

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