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Florida Adopts Additional Protections for Senior Investors in the 2025 Legislative Session

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June is Elder Abuse Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness of the growing trend of financial exploitation, which has become one of the most prevalent forms of abuse targeting the senior population. During the 2025...more

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Having a Senior Moment: Recent Legislation and Rules to Protect Seniors from Financial Exploitation

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In recent years there has been a spate of legislation and rules passed to protect senior investors. Similarly, observers of FINRA’s and the SEC’s annual priorities will, of course, have noticed both bodies’ inclusion of elder...more

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Arkansas Modifies Its Financial Exploitation Report and Hold Statute

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On April 1, 2021, Arkansas modified its law protecting elder and vulnerable adults from financial exploitation. The enacted Arkansas Senate Bill 151 modifies Arkansas’s financial exploitation law, Ark. Code § 23-42-309, by...more

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Nebraska Enacts Broker-Dealer and Investment Adviser Financial Exploitation Law

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On March 31, 2021, Nebraska became the latest state to pass legislation to protect elder and vulnerable adults from financial exploitation. The new law allows broker-dealers and investment advisers to report suspected...more

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SEC, NASAA and FINRA Issue Senior Safe Act Fact Sheet

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On May 23, 2019, in recognition of the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Senior Safe Act, the SEC, the North American Securities Administrators Association and FINRA issued a fact sheet to raise awareness of the act...more

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The Velvet Hammer: Undue Influence Based On Deceit, Fraud, and Relationship Poisoning and a Financial Institution’s Duty To Report...

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The normal view of undue influence involves an actor threatening an elderly or infirm person into signing a document that he or she otherwise would not sign. One imagines the actor having control over the person and threating...more

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SEC Approves New Rules Enabling Financial Advisors to Defend Vulnerable Clients from Exploitation

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Financial exploitation of aging and mentally diminished investors by family members and third parties is on the rise. With America's senior population growing rapidly, this problem may only get worse. More than half of all...more

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Securities Legislative Update – Elderly Investors 2017

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The SEC recently approved FINRA’s proposed rule aimed at preventing fraud and abuse of senior investors. On March 30, FINRA issued Regulatory Notice 17-11, setting the effective date for the new rule as February 5, 2018. The...more

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FINRA Submits Proposed Rules to the SEC to Address Financial Exploitation of Seniors

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Last Thursday, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) submitted proposed rules to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) designed to address “financial exploitation of seniors and other...more

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