{"id":11776,"date":"2025-10-17T09:40:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/?p=11776"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:40:51","slug":"jody-vander-weide-barred-for-refusing-to-cooperate-with-finra-and-outside-business-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/jody-vander-weide-barred-for-refusing-to-cooperate-with-finra-and-outside-business-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Jody Vander Weide Barred For Refusing To Cooperate With FINRA And Outside Business Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10205 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FiverrLossesSmall.jpg\" alt=\"Jody Vander Weide (CRD# 2571083) was barred after 29 years working as a broker in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Fort Wayne Indiana. At the time of the incident he was working at Osaic Wealth, Inc. Prior to that, he spent 17 years at Sigma Financial Corporation, where he was discharged for violating the firm\u2019s policies by engaging in an undisclosed outside business activity as an unlicensed investment advisor representative.\n\nRegulatory allegations against Weide included making false or misleading statements to his firms and to the Securities and Commercial Licensing Bureau. \u00a0Specifically, he misrepresented the reason for his termination by Sigma Financial Corporation. \u00a0He also suggested that he was unaware of the wrongfulness of charging unauthorized fees to customers without his broker dealer firm\u2019s approval and attempted to erase his paper trail. He also made false statements about his registration application.\u00a0\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FiverrLossesSmall.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FiverrLossesSmall-180x120.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jody Vander Weide (<a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/individual\/summary\/2571083\" target=\"_blank\">CRD# 2571083<\/a>) was barred after 29 years working as a broker in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Fort Wayne Indiana. At the time of the incident he was working at Osaic Wealth, Inc. Prior to that, he spent 17 years at Sigma Financial Corporation, where he was discharged for violating the firm\u2019s policies by engaging in an undisclosed outside business activity as an unlicensed investment advisor representative. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/jody-vander-weide-barred-for-refusing-to-cooperate-with-finra-and-outside-business-activity\/#more-11776\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jody Vander Weide (CRD# 2571083) was barred after 29 years working as a broker in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Fort Wayne Indiana. At the time of the incident he was working at Osaic Wealth, Inc. Prior to that, he spent 17 years at Sigma Financial Corporation, where he was discharged for violating the firm\u2019s policies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[577,580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finra-disciplinary-actions","category-stockbroker-misconduct"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jody Vander Weide Barred By FINRA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jody Vander Weide was barred after 29 years working as a broker in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Fort Wayne, Indiana.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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