Artis Proficio Capital Management
He solicited around 117 investors to invest in his fake hedge funds artis proficio capital management and artis proficio capital investments the release said.
Artis proficio capital management. Artis proficio capital management llc is a georgia limited liability company that a consultant hired by arbab organized in february 2019. As part of his guilty plea arbab admitted that from may 2018 through may 2019 while enrolled at the university of georgia campus in athens georgia he solicited investors many of whom were his fellow students to invest in his entities artis proficio capital management and artis proficio capital investments collectively apc which he told investors were hedge funds. Proficio employs an opportunistic approach to diversification through the construction of a highly diversified and actively allocated combination of asset classes and securities using both internally managed and externally managed investment vehicles. Artis proficio capital management llc.
Arbab collected 1 million in investments while running the scheme some from fellow uga students and their families. He admitted making misrepresentations to convince the victims to invest about 1 million in artis proficio capital management and artis proficio capital investments promising rates of return as. Arbab later took over as the registered agent for apcm in april 2019. According to the sec allegations.
The companys filing status is listed as activecompliance and its file number is 19029741. The secs complaint filed friday in federal district court in athens georgia charges arbab artis proficio capital investments llc and artis proficio capital management llc with violating section 17 a of the securities act of 1933 as well as section 10 b of the securities exchange act of 1934 and rule 10b 5 thereunder and sections 206 1 2 and 4 of the investment advisers act of 1940 and rule 206 4 8 thereunder. He solicited around 117 investors to invest in his fake hedge funds artis proficio capital management and artis proficio capital investments the release said. The registered agent on file for this company is stephen romanoff and is located at 1126 rays rd stone mountain ga 30083.
Artis proficio capital management llc is a georgia domestic limited liability company filed on february 27 2019. Broad street athens ga 30601. This matter involves an ongoing ponzi scheme and offering fraud by syed arham arbab arbab a former student at the university of georgia uga and two entities under his operation and control defendants artis proficio capital investments llc apci and artis proficio capital management llc apcm.