Posts belonging to Category Auction Rate Securities
Posted by Page PerryonAugust 2, 2012
A number of cities and local governments that issued auction rate securities at low interest rates are now paying higher interest rates because of widespread auction failures that began occurring in early 2008. Some of them have filed arbitration claims against the Wall Street banks that recommended the issuance of auction rate securities, underwrote them, […]
Categories: Auction Rate Securities, Brokerage Firms, Securities, UBS
Posted by Page PerryonAugust 1, 2012
The former co-head of UBS AG’s municipal-derivatives group, and two ex-colleagues are defendants in a municipal bond bid-rigging case being tried before U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in Manhattan (“Ex-UBS execs on trial in muni bid-rigging case,” InvestmentNews).
Categories: Auction Rate Securities, Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Fairness/Just & Equitable Conduct, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, J. P. Morgan Chase, Misrepresentation/Omission, Municipal Bonds, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, UBS, Wells Fargo
Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 23, 2012
The amount of dollars at stake in FINRA securities arbitrations has grown in recent years. Of the 7,000 claims currently pending, approximately 200 involve claims of $10 million or more. “The claims coming in now are substantially larger than what we had a few years ago,” Linda Fienberg, president of FINRA Dispute Resolution, was quoted […]
Categories: Auction Rate Securities, Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, Citigroup Hedge Funds, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Suisse, Fairness/Just & Equitable Conduct, Hedge Funds, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, Merrill Lynch, Misrepresentation/Omission, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, UBS, Unsuitable Recommendations
Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 18, 2012
Unsophisticated state and local government officials have been sold billions of dollars of flawed financial products by Wall Street banks, leaving taxpayers on the hook for even more. The banks advised the governments to issue auction rate bonds to lower their financing costs and purchase interest rate swaps to protect the governments if the market […]
Categories: Auction Rate Securities, Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Derivatives, Fairness/Just & Equitable Conduct, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, Merrill Lynch, Misrepresentation/Omission, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Unsuitable Recommendations
Posted by Page PerryonSeptember 16, 2011
Many investors, both individuals and corporations, were misled by their brokers and harmed during the credit crisis. For various reasons, however, many such investors have not yet taken action to recover their losses. Some have delayed taking action in order to see whether the misconduct warranted legal action while others just put it off until […]
Categories: Alternative Investments, Asset Backed Securities, Auction Rate Securities, Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Derivatives, Deutsche Bank, Early Retirement Scams, Elder Abuses, Goldman Sachs, Hedge Funds, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, J. P. Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Structured Notes, SunTrust, UBS
Posted by Page PerryonJuly 27, 2011
Two subsidiaries of SunTrust Banks, SunTrust Robinson-Humphrey and SunTrust Investment Services have agreed to pay a combined total of $5 million to settle FINRA charges that they misled clients about the liquidity risks of auction rate securities, according to an article in the Atlanta Journal by J. Scott Trubey entitled “Regulator fines two units of […]
Categories: Auction Rate Securities, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, SunTrust
Posted by Page PerryonJuly 1, 2011
Raymond James Financial has agreed to buy back $300 million in auction-rate securities from clients and pay a fine of $1.7 million as part of a settlement the Securities and Exchange Commission and the states of Florida, Texas, Indiana, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, according to Bruce Kelly’s InvestmentNews article entitled […]
Categories: Auction Rate Securities, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Raymond James, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonJuly 1, 2011
A U.S. district court judge granted Morgan Keegan’s motion for summary judgment, dismissing the Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that the brokerage firm misled investors in connection with its sales of $2.2 billion in auction-rate securities, according to an InvestmentNews article entitled “SEC claim that Morgan Keegan misled ARS investors is nixed,” and David Benoit’s […]
Categories: Auction Rate Securities, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Investment Advisers, Morgan Keegan, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonJune 21, 2011
Best-selling “Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led To Economic Armegeddon,” by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner, “calls out greedy guys behind mortgage mess,” according to a USA Today book review by Kathryn Caravan. See also “Home Truths,” by James Freeman of the Wall Street Journal. Both reviews provide examples of how the […]
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Posted by Page PerryonJune 7, 2011
Defense-minded institutions that have long remained on the sidelines when defrauded have finally woken up and are jumping on the plaintiff-recovery bandwagon as they seek to protect themselves against a variety of wrongdoing, according to Vanessa O’Connell’s Wall Street Journal article entitled “Company Lawyers Sniff Out Revenue.” These actions include waves of claims against Wall […]
Categories: Asset Backed Securities, Auction Rate Securities, Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Credit Suisse, Derivatives, Deutsche Bank, ERISA Fiduciaries and Claims, Goldman Sachs, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, J. P. Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Preferred Stocks, Private Investments/Reg D, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Structured Notes, SunTrust, UBS