Posts belonging to Category Credit Default Swaps
Posted by J. Boyd PageonMarch 29, 2013
Rising interest rates may be death to traditional bonds and bond funds, but a number of alternative investment strategies allegedly designed to protect principal in a rising interest rate environment are springing up to take their place. It remains to be seen whether they will provide ballast when bond prices fall. For decades, bond investors […]
Categories: A General Overview, Alternative Funds, Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Closed End Funds, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Early Retirement Scams, Elder Abuses, Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs), Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Fairness/Just & Equitable Conduct, Hedge Funds, High Yield (Junk) Bonds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, Limited Partnerships, Misrepresentation/Omission, Mutual Funds, Penny Stocks, Private Equity Investments, Private Investments/Reg D, Promissory Notes, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Structured Notes, Unsuitable Recommendations, Variable Annuities and Equity-Indexed Annuities
Posted by Page PerryonSeptember 24, 2012
Federal prosecutors may be about to run out of time to file criminal charges against Wall Street participants for their role in the financial crisis. Charges for most federal offenses, including securities fraud, must be filed within five years of the offense, experts say. The subprime lending that played a significant role in the crisis […]
Categories: Asset Backed Securities, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Citigroup Hedge Funds, Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Investment Advisers, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonJune 9, 2012
Financial advisers need to know that dangers lurk in the complex world of alternative investments and they must disclose these dangers to their clients. At present, many investment advisers are under pressure to sell alternative investments and are doing so in greater numbers than ever before. Alternative investments can include virtually any investment that is […]
Categories: Alternative Funds, Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Closed End Funds, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Elder Abuses, Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs), Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Fairness/Just & Equitable Conduct, Hedge Funds, High Yield (Junk) Bonds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, Life Policies/Viatical Settlements, Misrepresentation/Omission, Non-Traded Business Development Companies, Nontraded REITs, Oil & Gas, Options, Private Equity Investments, Private Investments/Reg D, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Structured Notes, Unsuitable Recommendations, Variable Annuities and Equity-Indexed Annuities
Posted by Page PerryonJune 5, 2012
The Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is expanding its investigation into whether J.P. Morgan traders, who made the derivatives trades that resulted in losses of $3 billion and counting, engaged in fraud, among other things. The investigation is proceeding under new authority gained in the Dodd-Frank financial reform act. “U.S. Probe of J.P. Morgan Widens,” […]
Categories: Brokerage Firms, Commodities and Futures, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, J. P. Morgan Chase, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonMay 21, 2012
By now many of us have learned of JPMorgan Chase’s $100 billion derivatives bet that has turned into a $3 billion and counting loss. Proving that Wall Street banks are still acting like gambling casinos, JPMorgan bet 15 percent of its balance sheet on risky credit default swap contracts tied to corporate bonds (“What JP […]
Categories: Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, J. P. Morgan Chase, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonMay 9, 2012
Wall Street is peddling snake oil ? new financial products that are the equivalent of bottles of medicine with labels like “Dr. Bartlett’s Beneficent Balm ? Boon to Mankind” ? and they should be regulated as such, according to University of Chicago professors Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl. The FDA protects consumers from […]
Categories: Alternative Investments, Asset Backed Securities, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs), Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Hedge Funds, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Investor Rights, Regulatory Developments, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Structured Notes
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 21, 2011
Fitch Ratings issued a report on November 16 on the U.S. banking sector saying that “the risks of a negative shock are rising” if the effects of European debt crisis keep spreading. (“Fitch’s Warning Spooks Investors, ” Wall Street Journal).
Categories: Bank of America, Bonds, Brokerage Firms, Credit Default Swaps, Economy, Goldman Sachs, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, J. P. Morgan Chase, Market Developments, Morgan Stanley, RBC Dain Raucher, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Stocks
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 16, 2011
JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs have sold credit default swaps that put them on the hook for $5 trillion of debt ? but they won’t say whose debt they are on the hook for. That leaves investors worried that it may be debt issued by Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and/or Spain. Greece and Italy […]
Categories: Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, Credit Default Swaps, Economy, Goldman Sachs, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, J. P. Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Market Developments, Morgan Stanley, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 1, 2011
Many commentators have noted recently that the Wall Street meltdown of 2007-2008 was not a “black swan” ? that is, an unprecedented and therefore unpredictable occurrence. Named for an influential 2007 book titled The Black Swan by investment fund manager Nassim Nicholas Talib, the black swan was used as a metaphor to explain why humans […]
Categories: Asset Backed Securities, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Hedge Funds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, Investor Rights, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonOctober 24, 2011
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon seems to see evidence of the SEC colluding with banks to let them off the hook for most of their “built to fail” synthetic (derivatives-based) CDOs (see “Is the SEC colluding with banks on CDO prosecutions?”). What has raised eyebrows was an email from a Citigroup spokesperson saying that Citigroup has […]
Categories: Asset Backed Securities, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Rights, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation