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Investment Professionals, Inc.
OS/2007008650302

The Firm failed to establish and maintain supervisory systems and failed to establish, maintain and enforce written procedures reasonably designed to achieve compliance with applicable securities laws and regulations.

Investment Professionals, Inc.: Censured; Fined $40,000; Required to amend or supplement its written supervisory procedures to adopt additional procedures designed to prevent unauthorized changes of address for customer accounts and to prevent changes of address that were not in compliance with the firm’s prohibitions,restrictions, procedures or policies.

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