Recently, the North American Securities Administrators Association (“NASAA”) released a timely survey entitled ‘Seniors & Financial Exploitation’ (the “Survey”). The Survey, which was conducted among NASAA’s membership of 67 state, provincial and territorial securities administrators in all 50 States, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, in addition to the U.S. Virgin Islands, Canada and Mexico, asked a number of pertinent questions surrounding the issue of elder financial abuse and senior investor exploitation.
With respect to the Survey, 36 regulators from member organizations provided formal responses. Among the Survey data gathered from the Respondents were the following questions and answers: