Is AXA Advisors a pyramid scheme?

Is AXA Advisors a pyramid scheme?

In 2009, FINRA barred a former AXA Advisors broker from the industry for operating a Ponzi scheme. Kenneth George Neely, an AXA broker from St. Louis, conducted a Ponzi scheme that exploited not only AXA customers, but his family and friends.

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