Broker Barry Michael Donald fined and suspended from FINRA

Barry Michael Donald, a former registered representative with Chase Investment Services Corp. in Morton, Illinois, fined and suspended from FINRA.

FINRA recently announced that Barry Michael Donald, a former registered representative with Chase Investment Services Corp. in Morton, Illinois, has been fined $10,000 and suspended from association with an FINRA member in any capacity for 20 business days. Without admitting or denying the findings, Donald consented to the described sanctions and to the entry of findings that he made unsuitable Unit Investment Trust (UIT) recommendations to a customer given the customer’s risk tolerance level and the overly concentrated nature of the recommended investments, negligently misrepresented material facts regarding UIT sales charges and estimated yields, and failed to reasonably ensure that a customer understood the products and risks of UITs before buying them.

According to his FINRA Broker Report (CRD), prior to working at Chase Investment Services Corp, Barry Donald was a registered representative with Banc One Securities Corporation, a registered broker-dealer based in Chicago, Illinois, and Horwitz & Associates, Inc., a registered broker-dealer based in Riverwoods, Illinois.

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