Broker-dealers and connected persons have three main suitability obligations. First, the reasonable-basis obligations requires that there be a reasonable basis to believe, based on reasonable diligence, that the recommendation is suitable for at least some investors. Second, the customer-specific obligation requires that there be a reasonable basis to believe that the recommendation is suitable for a particular customer based on that customer’s investment profile. Finally, quantitative suitability requires that a broker-dealer or associated person who has actual or de facto control over a customer account to have a reasonable basis for believing that a series of recommended transactions, even if suitable on their own, are not excessive or unsuitable for the customer taken together.

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