First Trust Portfolios censured and fined for alleged compliance failings connected to non-cash compensation
Some wholesalers employed by the firm:
- regularly provided gifts to client firm representatives that significantly exceeded the $100 per-person annual limit;
- provided meals and entertainment to some client firm representatives that were “so frequent and expensive as
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