{"id":1479,"date":"2014-07-07T19:17:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T19:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stockbrokerfraudblog.com\/2014\/07\/signalpoint_asset_management_t"},"modified":"2022-03-11T13:11:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T19:11:57","slug":"signalpoint-asset-management-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/signalpoint-asset-management-t\/","title":{"rendered":"SignalPoint Asset Management to PAY SEC Fine for Breach of Fiduciary Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe Securities and Exchange Commission is ordering the comptroller and principals of SignalPoint Asset Management to pay $215,000 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/breach-of-fiduciary-duty.html\">breach of fiduciary<\/a>. The regulator claims that the Missouri-based registered investment adviser breached its fiduciary duty when it did not tell clients about certain conflicts of interest. <\/p>\n<p>The SEC says that SignalPoint principals Dennis R. Walker, Jonathan C. Timson and John W. Handy Jr. failed to disclose that they had control of the RIA when they advised clients to invest in it. This failure to disclose the conflict is a violation of the Advisers Act.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Orzel, SignalPoint&#8217;s comptroller, was responsible for filing and drafting the RIA&#8217;s Form ADVs that also failed to disclose that Walker, Timson, and Handy were not just the principals of the registered investment adviser but also its control persons. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/signalpoint-asset-management-t\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading SignalPoint Asset Management to PAY SEC Fine for Breach of Fiduciary Duty\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission is ordering the comptroller and principals of SignalPoint Asset Management to pay $215,000 for breach of fiduciary. The regulator claims that the Missouri-based registered investment adviser breached its fiduciary duty when it did not tell clients about certain conflicts of interest. The SEC says that SignalPoint principals Dennis R. 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