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Mar 26, 2013 09:41AM
Keep in mind, the opinions on this site are for the most part speculation and are not necessarily the opinions of the company WITHOUT PREJUDICE
"By-Laws, Rules, Policies Violated
The Hearing Panel considered the Settlement Agreements at a hearing held on
July 6, 2010 in Toronto. In the Settlement Agreements, Corner, Halladay,
Moore, Rainbird and Hanson admitted that:
Between June 25, 2003 and April 1, 2007, they, in their capacity as Approved
Persons of Farm Mutual Financial Services Inc. (“Farm Mutual”), conducted
sales of exempt securities – specifically FactorCorp Financial Inc.
(“FactorCorp”) debentures – using training and information provided by their
Member, Farm Mutual, and as a result of deficiencies in that training and
information they sold FactorCorp debentures to clients who did not qualify as
accredited investors in accordance with Ontario Securities Commission Rule
45-501 and subsequently National Instrument 45-106 and to clients whose
risk tolerance was less than high, thereby contravening MFDA Rule 2.1.1(c)
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and thereby engaging the jurisdiction of the Hearing Panel to impose a
penalty on them pursuant to s. 24.1.1(h) of MFDA By-law No. 1.
Farm Mutual has previously been disciplined for deficiencies in its due
diligence assessment of FactorCorp debentures, deficiencies in its approval of
FactorCorp debentures for sale to clients, and deficiencies in its supervision
of such sales, including its failure to conduct second-tier supervisory
reviews.
1 Corner’s, Halladay’s, Moore’s, Rainbird’s and Hanson’s
contraventions, as admitted to above, occurred in the context of those
deficiencies and, in large part, as a result of those deficiencies."