As usual, I'm visiting the FINRA website on a Friday morning looking for recent regulatory actions. This morning I see an action against a couple of large firms concerning the fact that an IPO for a closed-end fund has a built-in sales charge (like any IPO) and, therefore, customers should not be advised to buy them during the offering and then dump them in the short-term. If you click on the link below you'll see how FINRA deals with such matters--they fine people, put them in the penalty box, and name names and reveal CRD numbers. In other words, it's a good idea to stay out of trouble. Check out the disciplinary action below. Once again you'll see how "real world" this Series 7 information actually is:
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