Following the consolidation, SAM program shoppers can pay LPL transaction costs for the acquisition and sale of sure securities within the account, until the funding advisor consultant individually agrees with the consumer to bear transaction charges, the brochures be aware.

If shoppers pay transaction costs, the funding advisor rep could advocate a better quantity of buying and selling exercise, the up to date brochure notes. An advisor consultant who agrees to bear transaction costs on a consumer’s behalf could also be topic to extra conflicts of curiosity and the transaction costs could also be an element thought of in recommending buying and selling exercise, the filings be aware.

As a result of the SAM I and SAM II applications have been mixed, SAM not is a “wrap charge program,” an providing that, in response to the SEC, typically entails an funding account the place a consumer is charged a single, bundled or “wrap” charge for funding recommendation, brokerage companies and different bills.

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