Investor Lawyers Blog
If your financial advisor has recommended an unsuitable investment in a Master Limited Partnership (or “MLP”) without a reasonable basis for the recommendation, you may be able to recover losses through arbitration before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). Recently, a three-member all public FINRA arbitration panel ordered RBC Capital Markets and one of its registered representatives to pay $723,000 to a former client, an elderly customer from Norwell, MA, in connection with losses sustained on an overconcentrated portfolio of oil and gas MLPs (FINRA Case No. 17-0305 – Nourie, et al v. RBC Capital Markets).
The investments at issue before the panel in the Nourie case included the following:
- Breitburn Energy Partners (OTC MKTS: BBEPQ);