Raymond James & Associates

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Harrison Bauman in Firm Raymond James & Associates, INC.

June 21, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Harrison Bauman (Bauman), currently associated with Raymond James & Associates, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Bauman recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $220,000.00 on January 19, 2024.

Claimant alleges FAs failed to follow her instructions to re-invest dividends from specified securities.

Broker Steven Schmitt in Raymond James & Associates, INC. Firm Has Customer Complaint

June 14, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Steven Schmitt (Schmitt), currently associated with Raymond James & Associates, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Schmitt recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $385,161.00 on December 18, 2023.

Claimant alleged, inter alia, that the investments strategy executed in the client’s account was unsuitable 2018-2022.

Broker Michael Madden in Raymond James & Associates, INC. Firm Has Customer Complaint

June 7, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Michael Madden (Madden), currently associated with Raymond James & Associates, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Madden recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $220,000.00 on January 19, 2024.

Claimant alleges FAs failed to follow her instructions to re-invest dividends from specified securities.

Broker Ira Bauman in Raymond James & Associates, INC. Firm Has Customer Complaint

June 7, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Ira Bauman (Bauman), currently associated with Raymond James & Associates, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Bauman recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $220,000.00 on January 19, 2024.

Claimant alleges FAs failed to follow her instructions to re-invest dividends from specified securities.

Broker William Bredt in Raymond James & Associates, INC. Firm Has Customer Complaint

May 18, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

Currently financial advisor William Bredt (Bredt), currently employed by brokerage firm Raymond James & Associates, INC. has been subject to at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint. According to a BrokerCheck reports most of the recent customer complaints concern either corporate debt securities or alternative investments such as direct participation products (DPPs) like business development companies (BDCs), non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs), oil & gas programs, annuities, and private placements. The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP have represented hundreds of investors who suffered losses caused by these types of high risk, low reward products.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint with a damage request of $400,000.00 on March 24, 2025.

Client alleges FA recommended an unsuitable private placement investment and misrepresented the returns and risks of the investment.

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Kirk Crossen in Firm Raymond James & Associates, INC.

May 13, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Kirk Crossen (Crossen), previously associated with Raymond James & Associates, INC., has at least 2 disclosable events. These events include one customer complaint, one regulatory event, alleging that Crossen recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a final customer complaint on May 01, 2025.

Respondent Crossen failed to comply with an arbitration award or settlement agreement or to satisfactorily respond to a FINRA request to provide information concerning the status of compliance.

Broker Benjamin Bayly in Raymond James & Associates, INC. Firm Has Customer Complaint

May 9, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Benjamin Bayly (Bayly), currently associated with Raymond James & Associates, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Bayly recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint on April 19, 2024.

Customer alleged that advisory fees charged in the accounts were not justified during periods when there were no transactions in the accounts. (1/1/2020-12/31/2022)

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Stevan Paton in Firm Raymond James & Associates, INC.

May 9, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Stevan Paton (Paton), currently associated with Raymond James & Associates, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Paton recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint on April 19, 2024.

Customer alleged that advisory fees charged in the accounts were not justified during periods when there were no transactions in the accounts. (1/1/2020-12/31/2022)

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Richard Funk in Firm Raymond James & Associates, INC.

May 3, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Richard Funk (Funk), previously associated with Raymond James & Associates, INC., has at least 2 disclosable events. These events include 2 customer complaints, alleging that Funk recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $500,000.00 on May 15, 2024.

The situation involves a breach of trust in a currency trading program that promised to use trailing stop losses on all trades, as stated in their documentation and marketing materials. However, the trading algorithm was overridden, and the stop loss on one stock was moved, allowing losses to accumulate. When the trade was eventually closed, it resulted in a significant financial loss.

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Pasquale Evangelista in Firm Raymond James & Associates, INC.

April 26, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Pasquale Evangelista (Evangelista), currently associated with Raymond James & Associates, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Evangelista 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 $277,686.00 on June 24, 2024.

Claimant alleges FA had a conflict of interest from also servicing claimant’s sibling’s account and the account of Claimant’s mother’s trust and that FA pressured her to sell securities in her account to pay down a line of credit even though her account was not the primary pledged account for the line. Claimant also alleges that following transfer of the funds to pay down the line, her account was frozen, and securities were liquidated because the account balance fell below the loan-ratio requirements. Allegation Activity Dates: 8/2018 – 8/2023.