by Broker Fraud | Feb 24, 2021 | Securities Fraud, Securities Litigation
Sometime before our current economic woes, you may have invested in a publicly registered non-traded Real Estate Investment Trust. The product offered attractive yields from real estate investment. Hoping for growth that would be a source of income when it was time to...
by Broker Fraud | Jan 26, 2021 | Securities Fraud, Securities Litigation
Interactive Brokers, the popular stock trading platform went down which left traders unable to place trades for several hours. Take a look at the article below posted by Annie Massa and Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou from Bloomberg. Outages at Interactive Brokers, Robinhood...
by Broker Fraud | Nov 19, 2020 | Securities Fraud, Securities Litigation
This past summer, many investors received what looks like a form letter in the mail from their investment firms. At first glance, many investors may have been tempted to pitch that form letter in the recycling bin without thoroughly reading the contents. If the letter...
by Broker Fraud | Oct 1, 2020 | Investment Fraud, Securities Litigation
Wells Fargo Sanctioned by FINRA for Not Supervising Variable Annuity Transaction Switches to Other Company Products In February, Wells Fargo settled a civil lawsuit and criminal prosecution filed ty the U.S. Department of Justice stemming from the 2016 disclosure that...
by Broker Fraud | Jun 30, 2020 | Securities Fraud, Securities Litigation
SEC Settlement with Major Investment Firm Results in $5M Fund Benefitting Harmed Wrap Fee Program Investors Investment firm, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC (MSSB), recently settled charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the company...
by Broker Fraud | Apr 23, 2020 | FINRA Arbitration, Securities Fraud, Securities Litigation
As we navigate and muddle through the calamity of the Corona Virus black swan (an unforeseen, unexpected event), we must assess (1) where our stock portfolio value is at and (2) why. Is the value lost acceptable considering the black swan or is the loss in value...
