{"id":5804,"date":"2018-03-02T17:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T22:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2018-03-02T17:02:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T22:02:30","slug":"silver-law-group-investigating-joseph-cotter-petersen-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/silver-law-group-investigating-joseph-cotter-petersen-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Law Group is Investigating Joseph Cotter of Petersen Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former North Carolina-based Petersen Investments broker Joseph Cotter has been named in a FINRA Investigation and is currently not affiliated with any broker-dealer firm.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Cotter was most recently registered with Petersen Investments in Charlotte, North Carolina (2016-2017). Previous registrations include Next Financial Group in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>According to his BrokerCheck Report, in May 2017, Joseph Cotter voluntarily resigned from his position at Petersen Investments while under FINRA investigation. In April 2017 FINRA disclosed that it was \u201cforwarding Examination 20160493163 to their Enforcement Department.\u201d In 2016, Cotter was discharged from his position at Next Financial Group after \u201can internal review of the trading activity in a customer\u2019s accounts and found the level of trading activity to be excessive in light of the customer\u2019s profile and the character of the account.\u201d An arbitration claim against Next Financial Group recently settled for over $300,000 involving Mr. Cotter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/silver-law-group-investigating-joseph-cotter-petersen-investments\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Silver Law Group is Investigating Joseph Cotter of Petersen Investments\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former North Carolina-based Petersen Investments broker Joseph Cotter has been named in a FINRA Investigation and is currently not affiliated with any broker-dealer firm. Joseph Cotter was most recently registered with Petersen Investments in Charlotte, North Carolina (2016-2017). Previous registrations include Next Financial Group in Charlotte, North Carolina. 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