Defendant Name: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

Defendant Type: Subsidiary of Public Company

Document Reference: 2024-178_3-22278

Document Details

Legal Case Name In the Matter of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
Document Name JP Morgan Affiliates to Pay $151 Million to Resolve SEC Enforcement Actions
Document Date 31-Oct-2024
Document Format Administrative Proceeding
File Number 3-22278
Allegation Type Investment Advisers/Investment Companies
Document Summary The SEC stated: "between July 2017 and October 2024, JPMS failed to fully and fairly disclose the financial incentive it and some of its financial advisors had when they recommended JPMS’s own Portfolio Management Program over third-party managed advisory programs offered by JPMS. During the relevant period, assets under management in the program’s strategies grew from approximately $10.5 billion to morethan $30 billion."

Disgorgement & Penalty Information

Resolutions
Cease and Desist Order
Censured
Monetary Penalties:

Civil Penalty

Individual:     $45,000,000.00 Shared:    

Related Documents:

34-101494 31-Oct-2024 Administrative Proceeding
Order Instituting Administrative and Cease-and-Desist Proceedings, Pursuant to Section 15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Sections 203(e) and 203(k) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, Making Findings, and Imposing Remedial Sanctions and a Cease-and-Desist Order
On October 31, the SEC instituted settled administrative and cease-and-desist proceedings against J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, stating: "This matter arises from disclosure violations by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (“JP Morgan Securities”), a dually registered investment adviser and broker-dealer, in connection with its advisory program known as the Portfolio Manager Program (“PM Program”). Since at least July 2017 until October 11, 2024 (the “Relevant Period”), JP Morgan Securities failed to fully and fairly disclose the financial incentive of itself and certain of its financial advisors2 to recommend the PM Program over advisory programs offered by JP Morgan Securities that use third-party managers."