{"id":28823,"date":"2022-10-25T21:21:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T02:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=28823"},"modified":"2023-09-13T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:02:24","slug":"dont-be-a-victim-broker-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/dont-be-a-victim-broker-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Broker Negligence: Avoid Investment Losses with these Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ocean Financial Services <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This independent broker-dealer is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ocean Bank in Florida and was established in 2012. Headquartered in Miami, Ocean Financial Services offers investment management and financial strategies, as well as advice and recommendations, to all kinds of investors. The firm\u2019s website lists fixed income, mutual funds, equity securities, structured products, legacy planning, and credit solutions as among the products and services it provides customers. Ocean Financial Services is licensed in California, North Carolina, Delaware, New York, Texas, and Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/\">investorlawyers.com<\/a>) represent investors, including foreign nationals, because an Ocean Financial Services broker unsuitably recommended certain financial products to them and this resulted in significant investor losses. Most notably, we have filed a number of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration cases against this broker-dealer related to Northstar Financial Services (Bermuda) products.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/dont-be-a-victim-broker-negligence\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Broker Negligence: Avoid Investment Losses with these Tips\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean Financial Services This independent broker-dealer is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ocean Bank in Florida and was established in 2012. Headquartered in Miami, Ocean Financial Services offers investment management and financial strategies, as well as advice and recommendations, to all kinds of investors. 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