You have passed the necessary exams (congratulations!) and are applying for registration as a securities
agent. It is already the end of September. Therefore, you must pay
Ms. Ding is an administrative assistant to the manager of a mutual fund. Most of her day is spent entering
data onto a spreadsheet for her boss and answering phone calls. Some of the calls require her to provide
information about the some of the fund's financial aspects, such as its closing net asset value on the
previous day. What type of registration does Ms. Ding require in order to perform her duties?
When a customer files a complaint with a broker-dealer,
I. the broker-dealer must submit the complaint to the firm's compliance department.
II. the broker-dealer must provide a prompt written response to the complainant.
III. the broker-dealer must temporarily suspend the activities of any agent named in the complaint.
Your next-door neighbor's brother works for a large pharmaceutical company and confided in her that one
of the company's chemists has just discovered a compound that will cure baldness and that the firm plans
to make the discovery public later in the week. Your next-door neighbor passes this information on to you
over a cup of coffee the next morning. You immediately call your broker and place an order to buy shares
of the company's stock. Has any illegal insider trading taken place?
What criminal penalties are specified for "willful violations" of the Uniform Securities Act?
