FINRA Series-63 Answers

Which of the following trades is illegal?

Which of the following may an investment adviser not use in an attempt to solicit new clients?

Which of the following securities would be exempt from state registration requirements, according to the Uniform Securities Act? I. a municipal bond issued by the Canadian province of Nova Scotia II. a bond issued by the county of Cork, Ireland III. a bond issued by Nationwide Insurance Company

Which of the following scenarios describes activities that are disallowed under the NASAA Model Rules? I. Broker-dealer Anon observes that a client placed a stop loss order to sell her 1,500 shares of Amazon.com stock for $131 when the stock was selling for $134. Anon sold the stock for $133 when it started to fall during the day and credited the client’s account with $131 per share when stock dropped further to $129 a share. II. Penny is an agent with Broker-dealer Anon. She recently recommended that a client buy a stock that Penny thought would do well. As it turned out, Penny was wrong, and she offers to refund the commission that the client paid her. III. Broker-dealer Anon is part of the selling group of a hot new IPO. As such, the firm purchases 50% of the shares for its own portfolio and sells the remainder to the public.

If an issuer registers securities with the state, how long can the documentation supplied in the registration statement for those securities be incorporated by reference only into a registration statement for future securities the issuer wants to offer for sale?