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Finance: What is an Associated Person? 3 Views


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What is an Associated Person? An associated person is just an employee of a broker or a dealer that are involved in trading. These people must be certified depending on their jobs and follow SEC regulations; thus people like secretaries are often not included.

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Finance a la shmoop... what is an associated person oh it sounds so

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devious maybe even evil associated person a crime scene like were they [Man with horns on his head in a street]

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there when the murder happened or were they just hanging out at seedy billiards

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club shoes optional....Picture a bright light

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shining in your face and a dark voice asking are you now or have you ever been

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associated with an associated person yeah not so much [Light shining on a man]

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all right an associated person is just a principal in a FINRA covered firm... FINRA,

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FINRA it stands for Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Associated

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person is then legally "associated" with that firm and they have to [Man holding arms up to police]

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follow that firms standards and practices ethical codes and style guides

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in not using pink color font on their letterhead so who is that person

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it's a partner, an officer, a director, or a branch manager or even anyone

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performing duties similar to the above that is it's a broad all-encompassing

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definition of associated so that if friends of or dotted line partners to

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the firm do bad things well then the long arm of the law has the right to go [Police officers chase man with horns on head]

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after them with teeth well the first type of whispery associated person would

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have been a lot more compelling sorry

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