Planner Accused of Shopping for Home With $2M in Consumer Funds

The Indiana secretary of state has issued a cease-and-desist order towards an unregistered monetary planner whom authorities accused of utilizing over $2 million in consumer funds to purchase a home, amongst different allegations. 

The secretary’s securities division issued the order towards Alexander Joyce, who allegedly induced a number of purchasers to enter into an funding advisor settlement along with his agency with out being registered as an advisor, and towards his associated enterprise entities ReJoyce Monetary and ReJoyce Wealth Administration.

The order additionally named funding advisor Joel Parady, based on a press launch Wednesday. Parady is listed in FINRA’s BrokerCheck as a registered funding advisor and former registered dealer.

Joyce, Parady and the named companies had been ordered to cease providing or participating in funding advisor providers and providing or promoting securities, amongst different actions. The order petition signifies that Charles Schwab Corp. made a criticism to the secretary of state earlier this month on behalf of two Indiana residents who had just lately change into Joyce’s purchasers via ReJoyce Monetary.

Purchasers claimed they had been drawn to Joyce’s enterprise due to tv advertisements and his providing varied monetary providers, the assertion from Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales mentioned. Joyce, whose LinkedIn profile lists him as ReJoyce Monetary’s president and CEO, didn’t open up to the purchasers that he wasn’t a registered funding advisor, the order petition says.

In conferences with the purchasers, Joyce represented that he would switch their almost $2.6 million in belongings to a brand new JPMorgan Chase account. A state investigator realized the funds as an alternative had been transferred from the purchasers’ Schwab account to a Chase checking account with Rejoyce Wealth Administration listed because the account holder and Alexander Joyce listed as a signer, based on the petition.

Greater than $2 million of these funds had been transferred to a title firm to purchase a house that was put in ReJoyce Wealth Administration’s title, the petition mentioned, citing documentation.

“Joyce personally met with purchasers and mentioned how their funds can be invested in ‘structured’ securities and that the funds can be positioned in an account at JPMorgan Chase. By conducting enterprise on this style, Joyce is alleged to have violated [the] Indiana Uniform Safety Act, which requires all funding advisors and their representatives to be registered with a purpose to conduct enterprise in Indiana,” the discharge acknowledged.

Joyce is also alleged to have engaged in securities fraud and funding advisor fraud, based on the discharge.

Joyce, his two named companies and Parady “engaged in a tool, scheme, artifice to defraud by offering documentation and making misrepresentations relating to establishing of an funding advisor-client relationship and utilizing that relationship to deprive purchasers of just about $2.6 million {dollars},” the order petition states.

On the time of the transactions, Joyce was engaged solely as a solicitor for one more funding advisory agency. A solicitor is somebody who’s compensated for referring enterprise to funding advisory corporations however doesn’t advise purchasers or make funding choices on their behalf, the workplace mentioned.