Wells Fargo to Pay $35 Million For Charging Excessive Advisory Fees
August 25 2023 - 9:53AM
Dow Jones News
By Will Feuer
Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $35 million to settle charges that
some of the bank's financial advisers charged excessive fees.
Wells Fargo also has paid affected account holders about $40
million, including interest, to reimburse them for the
overcharging, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said.
Wells Fargo overcharged more than 10,900 investment advisory
accounts by more than $26.8 million in advisory fees through the
end of last year, the SEC said.
Some financial advisers from Wells Fargo and its predecessor
firms had agreed to reduce fees for certain clients, but the
agreed-upon reduced fees were never entered into the firm's billing
systems, the SEC said. The issue affected certain clients who
opened accounts before 2014 through the end of 2022.
"For years, Wells Fargo and its predecessor firms negotiated
reduced advisory fees with thousands of clients, but failed to
honor them, overcharging those clients millions of dollars as a
result," said Gurbir Grewal, director of the SEC's enforcement
division.
Representatives for Wells Fargo didn't immediately respond to a
request for comment.
Write to Will Feuer at Will.Feuer@wsj.com
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