Articles Tagged with Kingswood Capital Partners

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Gregory Richards (Richards), currently associated with Kingswood Capital Partners, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Richards recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint with a damage request of $300,000.00 on April 03, 2025.

The customers allege that the Registered Representative recommended and misrepresented an unsuitable, high-risk and illiquid investment and breached his fiduciary duty.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Phillip Anderson (Anderson), previously associated with Kingswood Capital Partners, LLC, has at least 2 disclosable events. These events include one customer complaint, one regulatory event, alleging that Anderson recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a final customer complaint on May 13, 2025.

Without admitting or denying the findings, Anderson consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that he made recommendations to senior retail customers that were unsuitable based on the customers’ investment profiles by recommending that that they invest in speculative, unrated corporate bonds. The findings stated that Anderson’s recommendations to the customers resulted in at least 96 percent and 35 percent of their respective net worth, not including primary residence, being invested in the bonds. Anderson earned a total of $8,280 in commissions in connection with these recommendations. A customer and a beneficiary of the other customer each brought and settled an arbitration against Anderson’s member firm relating to the bond investments.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Joseph Smith (Smith), previously associated with Kingswood Capital Partners, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Smith recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint on August 04, 2023.

BREACH OF CONTRACT, VIOLATION OF STATE SECURITIES STATUTES, BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY, CLAIMS UNDER COMMON LAW AND VICARIOUS LIABILITY.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Robert Rasbach (Rasbach), currently associated with Kingswood Capital Partners, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Rasbach recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint with a damage request of $500,000.00 on October 02, 2023.

Allegation period: October 1, 2014 the date of the first purchase of SOAEX to October 2, 2023 the date the SOC was received. Allegations: Robert Rasbach U5 – E11, E12, SOAEX – unsuitability, misrepresentation/omission.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Mark Williams (Williams), previously associated with Kingswood Capital Partners, LLC, has at least 3 disclosable events. These events include 3 customer complaints, alleging that Williams recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint with a damage request of $546,000.00 on July 26, 2024.

The customers allege that during the period of early 2019 through February 2021, the Registered Representative withheld material facts and recommended unsuitable, high-risk, speculative, illiquid investments and breached his fiduciary duty.

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