- Affinity Fraud Hits Close to Home
- Hedge Fund Formed to Bet on Sports Collapses
- Securities Regulator Alerts the Public About Dangerous Investments and Investment Strategies
- Currency Risk Haunts Single-Country Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- Credit Suisse Traders Face Criminal Charges for Mortgage Investment Fraud
- Most Financial Advisers Don't Understand Alternative Investments According To John Hancock Survey
- Arbitrators Are Recognizing That 'Sophisticated Investors' Can Be Defrauded
- Wall Street Firms Apparently Like Arbitration Only When They Think It Gives Them An Advantage
- Financial Advisers Winning Big Money from Former Firms
- 20% of Existing Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) on 'Death Watch' List
- SEC Receiver Seeks to Deny Recovery to Many Medical Capital Investors
- Are Wall Street Wirehouses 'Killing the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg?'
- Survey - Financial Service Professionals Less Trusted Than Car Salesmen
- Corporate Bankruptcies Expected to Increase
- The Number of Very Large Securities Arbitration Cases is on the Rise
- Insider Trading Charges Reveal Hedge Fund Industry's "Culture of Greed"
- Some Warning Signs of Elder Fraud
- More Investors Avoid Stocks - Demand for Equities Drops
- MONEY Magazine - Variable Annuities Aren't Worth the Cost
- Wall Street Professionals Fleece Government Amateurs - Main Street Suffers
- ETFs Increase Volatility in the Junk Bond Market
- The News Regarding Nontraded REITs Keeps Getting Worse
- MAT/ASTA Cases Reveal the Seamy Side of Wall Street
- MONEY Magazine - Avoid Nontraded REITs
- AARP Article Urges Seniors to be Vigilant in Watching Out for Financial Scams
- Investor Alert - Extreme Caution Advised in 2012
- Is Wall Street Evolving into an Illegal Monopoly?
- Professor Claims That Wall Street Has Been Run By 'Psychopaths'
- Beware Social Media Scams
- Wall Street Continues to Cheat Main Street
- Financial Advisers Sued for Misrepresenting Credentials and Qualifications
- More 'Flash Crashes' on the Horizon?
- Are Most Hedge Fund Investors Chasing 'Fools Gold?'
- The SEC's Investor Tips - 2012
- Index Funds Can Carry Considerable Risk
- 'Serious Fraud' Exists in Hedge Fund Market
- Does Wall Street Believe that Breaking the Law is Just a 'Part of Doing Business?'
- Some Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Are Morphing Into Monsters
- Stock Funds Underperform Major Index
- Ponzi Scheme Victimizes Texas University
- Securities Regulators Fine Wells Fargo $2 Million for Elder Fraud
- Ratings Agencies Praised MF Global’s Risky Off-Balance Sheet Bet
- Investment Fraud Against Older Americans Is 'Rampant'
- Concerns Grow Over SRO Bill For Advisors
- Ignoring Financial Crimes Makes Next Financial Crisis Inevitable
- How Citigroup Met its Disclosure Obligations: a ‘Brain-Scrambling, Obfuscating Collection of Words’
- Household Wealth in the U.S. Continues to Decline
- Investors Continue to Withdraw Monies from Equity Mutual Funds
- SEC Receiver's Plan is Unfair to Proactive Medical Capital Noteholders
- Wells Fargo Pays $148 Million for Defrauding Municipalities
- Investor Demand for Equities is Waning
- Exotic ETFs Become Riskier and Riskier
- HSBC Fined for Elder Abuse
- Is There a Future for NonTraded REITs?
- Insider Trading Probes Expand
- Securities Regulators Warn Investors about Early Retirement Scams
- Brokerage Firms Beginning to Grow Leery of Non-Traded REITs
- Investment Corruption Reportedly Reaches the Highest Levels of Government
- High Risk Options Trading Is Being Pushed By Some Brokerage Firms
- Dr. Doom Forsees a 2012 Recession
- A New Way to Get Rich on Wall Street - Become a Whistleblower
- Judge Rejects Citi's Efforts to Buy Justice
- LPL Fined for Selling Unsuitable Alternative Investments to Seniors
- Morgan Stanley Fined for Gouging Investors
- Expert Contends that Brokerage Firms are Failing to Satisfy their Due Diligence Obligations.
- Regulators Fine Atlanta-Based Wells Investment Securities for Misleading Investors
- Regulator Warns Brokerage Firms About Misleading Seniors
- Concerns Rise Regarding Wall Street Banks
- Investment Corruption Runs Deep in Congress
- Are Certain ETFs Socially Irresponsible?
- Occupy Wall Street Protests Expand in the Face of Repression
- Morgan Stanley Bitten by 'Built to Fail' Structured Products
- Wall Street Firms Refuse to Disclose Exposure to European Debt
- Wall Street's Job Cuts Continue
- Hedge Fund Performance Disappoints Investors
- Citigroup and Deutsche Bank Pay $165 Million to Settle Mortgage Securities Claims
- Securities Violations Increase
- High Correlations Among Asset Classes Means There's No Place To Hide
- Stop Wall Street's Excessive Risk Taking - Eliminate Bonuses
- More Investment Protection Needed for Vulnerable Senior Citizens
- Italy's Insolvency Threatens the World's Economy
- New Book Reveals How Wall Street Firms are 'Gaming' the Capital Markets
- The Current Income Gap Poses Serious Threat to Economic Recovery
- Investors Flee From Synthetic ETFs
- Institutional Investors Challenge Secrecy of Bank of America Settlement Negotiations
- Investors Have Few Attractive Investment Opportunities at Present
- Wells REIT II Finally Reports That Share Values Have Dropped More Than 25%
- Nontraded REIT Investors Face a Reality Check
- Liquidity Crisis Looms
- Inspector General Confirms that SEC Improperly Destroyed Documents
- Nontraded Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - One Stupid Investment
- Many 'Retirement Income' Funds Aren't What They Appear To Be
- Hedge Funds Continue to 'Hide the Ball' from Investors
- Wall Street Banks Use Threats and Intimidation to Generate Positive Recommendations
- Hedge Fund Heroes Getting Battered
- More Hedge Fund Problems at Citi?
- Risky Investments Flood Self Directed IRAs
- Middle Class Facing A New Gilded Age?
- 'Crowd Funding' - Has Congress Lost Its Mind?
- Everything is not 'Fine' at MF Global Holdings
- The 2007-2008 Financial Crisis was not a 'Black Swan' Event
- Investors Prefer All Public Arbitration Panels
- Judge Challenges 'Cozy' Deal Between the SEC and Citigroup
- Study - Investors Over Age 60 Are More Vulnerable to Financial Fraud
- Wall Street's 'Entitled to Something for Nothing' Attitude Comes Under Attack
- Occupy Wall Street Protests Erupt Across the Globe
- Are Exotic Exchange Traded Funds New Weapons of Mass Destruction?
- Corruption at Securities Self Regulatory Organization
- Consumer Spending, not Corporate Tax Cuts, Key to Economic Recovery
- Hedge Funds Face New Disclosure Obligations
- Bond Investors Want Better Pricing Information
- Audit Problems Finally Come to Light - Who Can You Trust?
- Wall Street - Still Putting Lipstick on Pigs
- High Audit Fees May Be Indicative of Big Problems
- Is the SEC Selectively Enforcing the Securities Laws?
- Support Grows for 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement
- Occupy Wall Street As A Global Phenomenon
- Alternative Investments - High Risk 'Pigs in a Poke'
- Why Wall Street has a Culture of Corruption
- SEC Expands Investigation into Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- Middle Class Values Behind Occupy Wall Street
- Wall Street Disillusioned About the Future
- Focus Funds Only Appropriate for Investors Willing to Take a Wild Ride
- Hard Times for Most Hedge Funds
- Private Offerings Continue to Leave a Path of Destruction
- Wall Street's Worst Enemy is Wall Street
- Congress Studying Risks and Dangers of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- The Dynamics of the Stock Market are Changing for Retail Investors
- Investors Should Be Leading The 'Occupy Wall Street' Charge
- Lerner Cases Reveal Some of the Abuses Associated with Non-Traded REITs
- 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement Fueled by Income Disparity and Lack of Jobs
- Mutual Funds in Turmoil
- Securities Regulators Say That Bad Business Practices Are on the Rise at Investment Advisers
- Forex Fraud Case Reveals the Value of Whistleblowers
- Securities Arbitration Panel Awards Hedge Fund Manager $61 Million
- The Performance of Alternative Funds Leaves Much to be Desired
- Stock Market Volatility Likely to Continue
- 'Occupy Wall Street' Part of a Worldwide Revolt Against Elitism and Oppression
- Wall Street Pays to Play
- Wall Street: Under Siege and Contracting
- Are High Speed Trading Practices a New Form of Market Manipulation?
- Dominant ETF Firm Expresses Concerns About Synthetic ETFs
- Unemployment and Resulting Consumer Pessimism Present a National Crisis
- Investors in Closed-End Funds Get 'Scammed'
- SEC Inspector General Confirms that SEC Improperly Destroyed Records
- Are Non-Traded REITs Really immune from the Market Downturn?
- Is Morgan Stanley Telling the Truth about its Condition?
- 'Occupy Wall Street' on its Way to Becoming a Massive, Vibrant Movement
- FINRA Issues an Investor Alert Regarding Non-Traded (Private) REITs
- 'Selling Away' Abuses Result in Merrill Lynch Being Fined $1 Million
- 'Occupy Wall Street' Supporters Vow to Erase The New York Stock Exchange from the Internet
- Most Alternative Investments Carry Huge Risks
- 'Selling Away' Abuses Are Costing Investors Millions
- High Yield ('Junk') Bonds Are Speculative
- Storm Clouds Over Morgan Stanley
- Brokerage Firms Become More Concerned About Non-Traded (Private) REITs
- Raymond James' Affiliates Gouge Investors
- 'Occupy Wall Street' Continues Demonstrations Against Wall Street Greed
- Shares of Chinese Internet Companies Plunge Over Alleged Accounting Fraud
- Protect Yourself Against Investment Scams
- Is the 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement Gaining Traction?
- Recent Economic Data Is Troubling
- Factored Structured Settlements: Another Risky Alternative Investment
- And Now For Something Completely Different
- Job Cuts at UBS - A Microcosm of What's Happening on Wall Street
- The Housing Markets Aren't Bouncing Back
- Alternative Funds: Long Term Performance Doesn't Justify the Risks
- Whistleblower Problems Add to Bank of America's Woes
- Regulations and Jobs
- Do Hedge Funds Create and Burst Bubbles for their Own Benefit?
- Class Warfare?
- Risks Increase for Structured Products Involving Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo
- Seniors Are Increasingly Targeted in Financial Scams
- Survey - Most Investors Don't Really Understand ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds)
- Regulators Seek More Accurate Disclosures about Nontraded (Private) REITs
- Stable Value Funds Aren't So Stable
- Wall Street Versus Main Street: Greed Versus Common Sense
- Another 'Black Eye' for the SEC
- What's Happened to the Middle Class?
- Bond Investors Face Their Own Set of Risks
- UBS to Eliminate More Jobs and Slash Bonuses
- Are the U.S. Equity Markets at Risk?
- Unemployment and Poverty Continue to Grow in America
- Exchange Traded Funds Can Blow Up
- Market Risks Continue to Grow
- Has Market Volatility Become the Norm Rather than the Exception?
- Time Is Running Out On Credit Crisis Legal Claims
- SEC Expands Investigations into Toxic CDO Deals as the Awful Truth Begins to Come Out
- Rogue Trader Reportedly Costs UBS $2 Billion
- Taxpayers Foot Big Bills on Foreclosures
- Avoid Extreme and Exotic Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- Deaf Advisor Charged with Defrauding 7,000 Deaf Investors
- Floating Rate Funds Are Not Safe Investments
- Bank of America Must Deal with Exposure of $50-$100 Billion Associated with Toxic Mortgages Securities
- Experts Forecast More Bad Economic Developments
- Washington Continues to Ignore the Middle Class - the Real Driver of Economic Prosperity
- Hedge Funds Are Not Providing a Safe Haven from Market Volatility
- Investors Are Bailing Out of Mutual Funds
- Concerns Arise Regarding Structured Notes Issued by Bank of America
- Massive Job Cuts at Bank of America
- Wall Street Recommendations Defy Logic and Common Sense
- Protestors Plan to 'Occupy Wall Street'
- Alternative Investments Are Very Complex and Involve Significant Risks
- Wall Street's Lack of Credibility Drains Investor Confidence
- Investors Should Pass on Reverse Convertibles and Other Structured Products
- Is the Fox Guarding the (Investors') Chicken House?
- Securities Cops Issue Warnings about Current Investment Scams
- Are Wall Street's Job Cuts Tainted with Discriminatory Practices?
- Recent Study Confirms that Retail Investors are Disgusted and Angry
- UBS Announces Massive Job Cuts
- Niche Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Involve Unique Risks
- Unemployment Poses Major Threat to the Economy
- Have the Equity Markets Become Too Risky for Most Retail Investors?
- Bank of America May Cut More Than 10,000 Jobs This Year
- Lehman Sues Brokers to Recoup Bonuses - Confirms that Consummate Corporate Arrogance Knows No Bounds
- New SEC Whistleblower Office Opens
- Credit Unions Sue Goldman Sachs for Misrepresenting Mortgage-Backed Securities
- Market Turmoil Expected to Precipitate an Avalanche of Suitability Claims
- Reverse Convertible Securities More Likely to Become Toxic as Market Swoons
- As Markets Fall, ETF Investors Get Hammered
- Are You the Victim of a Financial Scam?
- Investors Seek Safe Havens as the Markets Tumble
- Investors Should Focus on Risk Tolerance during Turbulent Times
- S & P Downgrades U.S. Debt - Investors Remain Nervous
- SEC Report Reveals Serious Abuses in the Sale of Structured Securities
- FINRA Warns Investors about Structured Products and Other Non-Conventional Securities
- SunTrust Settles Auction Rate Securities Case with Regulators
- Massachusetts Files Action Against RBC for Improper Sales of Exotic Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- Georgia Securities Regulators Initiate Investigation of Reverse Convertible Securities
- Professional Athletes and Coaches Fall Prey to Scams Operated by 'Friends' and 'Advisers'
- Foreign Regulators Issue Warnings about Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- Professionals Are Often Best Suited to Detect Financial Abuse of Seniors
- Wall Street is Losing Main Street's Trust
- Investor Alert - Non-Traded (Private) REITs Involve a Dangerous Mix of Risks for Retail Investors
- Investor Alert - Forex Trading Can Be Lethal
- Financial Crises - Those Who Do Not Learn From History Are Doomed To Repeat It
- U.S. Loses the 'Backbone of the Country' as Middle Class Deteriorates
- Wall Street Pressures Brokers to Generate More Commissions
- Wall Street Trader Wins Big Incentive Compensation Claim
- Mortgage-Backed Securities Problems Continue to Haunt Bank of America
- Forex Trading is Unsuitable for Most Retail Investors
- Elderly Investors Concentrated in 100% Stock Portfolio Win $880,000 Award
- Investment Regulators Often Fail to Collect Monetary Sanctions
- Wells Fargo Settles Mortgage-Backed Securities Claims filed by Pension Funds
- Do Recent Unemployment Numbers Indicate that the Worst is Yet to Come?
- JP Morgan Pays $228 Million to Resolve Bid-Rigging Charges
- Investors That Use Registered Investment Advisors Face Their Own Set of Risks
- A Greek Default Could Impact Money Market Funds
- Is FINRA Just a Trade Association for the Securities Industry?
- Morgan Keegan for Sale?
- SEC Refuses to Take Action Against Senior Executives in Structured Product Cases
- Raymond James Settles Auction Rate Securities Dispute with Regulators
- Judge Gives Morgan Keegan a 'Free Pass' on Auction Rate Securities Claims
- Securities Industry Employment Disputes on the Increase as Wall Street Cuts Jobs
- SEC To Investigate Nontraded REITs
- Mortgage-Backed Securities Settlement Costs Bank of America $8.5 Billion
- Morgan Keegan Toxic Bond Fund Cases Provide Disturbing Examples of How Industry Arbitration Fails Investors
- Economic Armegeddon Ahead?
- Regulators Reiterate Warnings Regarding Exotic Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- Trustee Alleges JP Morgan 'Knew' of Madoff Fraud
- Do Wall Street Analysts Have Their Heads in the Sand?
- The Profile of the Securities Industry is Changing
- New Hedge Fund Regulations Implemented But For How Long?
- Investors to Receive Some Compensation from Morgan Keegan Regulatory Settlements
- Morgan Keegan Fined $200 Million for Fraud Involving Toxic Bond Funds
- Investors Sue to Recover Losses in Apple REITs
- Greek Crisis Warrants Close Scrutiny
- The Real Truth Regarding Some of Wall Street's Subprime Shenanigans Begins to Emerge
- The Subprime Mortgage Mess: How the American Dream Turned into a Nightmare
- Credit Union Administration Sues Wall Street Firms to Recover Investment Losses
- What are Structured Products and Why are They so Dangerous?
- Expert Issues Warnings Regarding the Stock and Housing Markets
- Magnetar CDO Deals Haunt Wall Street Firms
- Are Bond ETFs Facing a Hard Landing?
- Massachusetts Claims it was Overcharged for Forex Trades
- Wall Street Seeks to Profit from the Madoff Fraud
- How Wall Street's Pay Practices Create Conflicts with Investors
- Private Offerings Scuttle Another Brokerage Firm
- Improper Sales of '100% Principal Protected Notes' Wallop UBS Again
- Employment Disputes Ahead for Morgan Stanley?
- Whitney Continues to Predict Huge Problems in the Municipal and Housing Markets
- Employment Related Disputes Expected to Rise on Wall Street
- Household Debt Threatens Economic Recovery
- Experts Conclude that Structured Products are 'Absurdly Destructive'
- Even the Most Sophisticated Investors can be Defrauded
- Are Unemployment Rates Among Young People Reaching Crisis Levels?
- Fluctuating Margin Requirements Impact the Volatility of Commodities
- When 'Principal Protected' Doesn't Really Mean an Investor's Principal is Protected
- False Valuations Plague Nontraded REITs
- Annuity Products Used to Scam Senior Citizens
- Study Indicates That Investors Prefer to Pay Commisions Instead of Account Fees
- Florida Man Guilty of Running a Ponzi Scheme
- Institutional Investors Are Filing Big Claims Against Financial Services Firms
- Reg D and Other Private Offerings are Dangerous for Brokerage Firms as well as their Clients
- Investing in a Nontraded REIT is Buying an Expensive "Pig in a Poke"
- Reg D and Other Private Placement Offerings are Often Plagued by a Lack of Due Diligence
- The Performance of Commodities Exchange Traded Funds Can Vary Significantly
- Many Questions Arise When Considering an Investment in Variable Annuities
- Study: Structured Products Pose Huge Risks to Investors' Portfolios
- Huge Auction Rate Securities Award Against Credit Suisse Upheld
- Is an Organization "Too Big to Fail" Above the Law?
- The Forex Mess Gets Nasty
- Are FINRA's Threatened Enforcement Actions on Structured Products Fact or Window Dressing?
- Affinity Fraud Generally Occurs When People Least Expect It
- SunTrust Offers $14.3 Million to Settle an Auction Rate Securities Case
- Wall Street's Game of "Musical Chairs" Escalates
- Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse Fined for Misrepresenting Important Facts about Mortgage-Backed Securities to Investors
- SEC Approves Whistleblower Rewards Program
- Attention Investors - Beware of Structured Products
- Dodd-Frank: "Whistleblower" Provisions
- Unemployment Remains a Big Concern
- Will Small Business Capital Raising Exemptions Lead to Increased Investment Fraud?
- New York Attorney General's Investigation Could be a Nightmare for Wall Street Banks
- It's Time to Consider a Self-Funded SEC
- Do State and Local Government Debt Pose a Threat to the Economy?
- Wall Street Wagers on Death Benefits
- School Teachers Scammed in Oil and Gas Deals
- Hedge Fund King Guilty of Insider Trading
- Is America Sacrificing its Children and Future for the Benefit of a Privileged Few?
- "Portfolios to Go" - A Threat to Financial Advisers?
- The Battle Over a Fiduciary Standard Heats Up
- Life Partners is in the SEC's Crosshairs
- "Mini Munis" Haunt Bond Funds that Own Them
- Auction Rate Securities Update - Raymond James
- Special Interest Groups and House Republicans Continue to Pressure SEC to Delay Formal Approval of a Fiduciary Standard for Financial Services Firms
- Mass Mutual Sues Goldman, UBS and JP Morgan Over Soured Mortgage-Backed Securities Deals
- Brokers Transition to Smaller,Independent Firms
- Goldman's Legal Woes Keep Growing
- JPMorgan Chase is Close to Settling "Built to Fail" CDO Investigation
- Who's Right - Financial Advisers or GenXers?
- Financial Services Firms and Special Interest Groups Seek to Thwart Consumer Financial Protection
- Wells Fargo's Auction Rate Securities Woes Continue
- Investors Question the Integrity of the Financial Markets
- Silver Investments Plummet
- Financial Services Firms Accused of Duping the Government out of $137 Billion
- House Republicans on "Mission" to Undercut Investor Protection
- Wells Fargo Sanctioned for Failing to Deliver Prospectuses
- Feds Charge Deutsche Bank with Mortgage Fraud
- Mandatory Arbitration Clauses In Financial Service Contracts After Supreme Court's Decision In AT&T v. Concepcion
- Many "Senior Specialists" Are Anything But !!!
- Is the Financial Services Industry "Buying" Senators, Congressmen and Regulators?
- Financial Exploitation of Senior Citizens Continues to Increase
- Troubled Securities America is "For Sale"
- FINRA Suspends Broker-Dealer Involved in Fraudulent Oil and Gas Deals
- Taxpayers Lost Billions in the Recent Financial Crisis - "Where are the Criminal Prosecutions?"
- SEC Files Suit Regarding Virginia Ponzi Scheme
- Senate Subcommittee Investigation Supports Conclusion Goldman Sachs Bet Against Subprime-Backed CDOs that it Sold to Investors
- Is Bankruptcy a Viable Option for Financially Strapped Cities and Municipalities?
- Senate Report on Financial Crisis Criticizes Ratings Agencies
- Wells Fargo/Wachovia Settles CDO Price-Gouging Charges
- Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) May Not Produce the Returns Investors Expect
- If Goldman Sachs Didn't Tell Congress The Truth, What Do You Suppose It Told Its Customers?
- Senate Report Reveals that Goldman Sachs Tried to Manipulate Mortgage-Backed Securities Market
- Wall Street Firms Were Major Culprits in the Financial Crisis
- Was FINRA's Recent Settlement with UBS Concerning Lehman 100% Principal Protected Notes a "Whitewash?"
- Victims of Reverse Convertibles Abuses Span the Globe
- Many Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Provide Investors with a Wild and Dangerous Ride
- Arbitration Panel Renders $54 Million Award Against Citigroup in Case Involving MAT/ASTA Municipal Arbitrage Investments
- Pension Funds Seek $500 Million from JP Morgan Chase for Breach of Legal Duties
- Regulators Sanction UBS for Improper Sales of Lehman Principal Protected Notes (a/k/a Structured Notes)
- Structured Products Aren't What You Think They Are
- Mortgage-Backed Securities Problems Continue to Haunt Bank of America
- Article Reports that Atlanta-Based Wells Investment Securities Faces Regulatory Problems
- Brokerage Firms Oppose Efforts to Restrict Excessive Fees in Private Offerings
- Regulators Issue Sanctions Against Brokers for Misconduct in Private Offerings (Reg D Offerings)
- Median Household Wealth Takes A Tumble
- Goldman's CDO Problems Continue
- Wall Street Banks Lobby to Undercut Financial Reform
- Regulators Widen Probe of Reverse Convertibles - SEC Also Jumps into the Fray
- Investor Alert: Are Reverse Convertible "Time Bombs" in Your Portfolio?
- Regulators Begin Investigations of Reverse Convertibles and Other Structured Products
- Regulatory Actions - Is It Better to Fight or Concede?
- New Congress Funds Pork Projects but not Investor Protection
- Why Are FINRA's Arbitrator Disclosure Guidelines So Confusing?
- Investor Wins Interest Rate Swaps Claim Against Deutsche Bank
- Credit Unions Sue Wall Street Banks to Recover Mortgage-Backed Securities' Losses
- Morgan Stanley Sued for Mishandling Retirement Plan
- FINRA Sanctions Southwest Securities
- Special Interest Groups Seek to Undermine Investor Protection
- Senior Citizens are More Vulnerable to being Victims of Scams and Investment Fraud
- Experts Wave Caution Flags Regarding Junk Bonds
- SunTrust Sued For Alleged 401(k) Abuses
- Ohio Ponzi Scheme Targeted Elderly Investors
- Judge Rejects Securities America's Attempts to Settle Class Actions Involving Medical Capital Notes and Provident Royalties Securities
- Lehman Bankruptcy Trustee Sues Citibank to Recover $1.3 Billion
- "A Perfect Time to be a Crook"
- Article Raises Concerns Regarding SEC's Effectiveness
- Questions Raised about How Major Financial Institutions are Treating Troubled Loans
- Is UBS Wealth Management for Sale?
- Did Big Banks Manipulate LIBOR Rates?
- AARP Issues Warnings about Principal Protected Notes and Other Structured Product Investments
- Are Brokerage Firms Really the Trusted Financial Advisers that Their Advertisements Claim that They Are?
- Reverse Convertibles are Toxic Securities for Safety Conscious Investors
- The New Congress Appears Determined to Undermine the Integrity of the U.S. Capital Markets
- Buyer Beware of Equity Indexed Annuities
- SEC Proposes Rule Aimed at Reducing Excessive Risk Taking by Brokerage Firms and Investment Advisers
- Study Concludes that the SEC Needs More Oversight of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- Institutional Investor in Auction Rate Securities Allowed to Proceed with $200 Million Claim Against Deutsche Bank
- Why No Major Indictment in Connection with the Financial Crisis?
- Another Cautionary Tale of Investors Seeking Higher Yields Falling Prey to Fraudsters?
- Did Citigroup Knowingly Sweep Subprime Losses Under the Rug?
- Ameriprise and its Securities America Affiliate Seek to Use a Legal Loophole to Avoid Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Legal Exposure
- Is Your Broker or Financial Adviser "Churning" Your Account?
- Wall Street is Back Up to its Old Tricks - Sales of Risky Asset Backed Securities Return
- Beware of Brokers Selling Foolproof Systems
- Some Municipal Bond Funds May Be Fudging Their Net Asset Values
- Sophisticated Institutional Investors "Jump on the Bandwagon" - Sue to Recoup Losses in Mortgage-Backed Securities and CDOs
- Former Goldman Sachs Director Charged with Insider Trading
- Underfunded Public Pensions Spell Trouble
- New Whistleblower Law Has Corporations Running Scared
- Will Bank of America Move Quickly to Settle All Mortgage-Backed Security Repurchase Demands?
- Survey Raises Concerns about Wall Street's Trustworthiness
- No Market is Immune to the Real Estate Crash
- Companies Push to Water Down Whistleblower Laws
- Big Financial Institutions Blame Others for the Financial Crisis
- Private Offerings (a/k/a Reg D Offerings) Continue to Haunt Brokerage Firms
- Proceed with Caution if You are Considering Peer-to-Peer Lending
- Falling Real Estate Prices Threaten Economic Recovery
- Advisor Scams Investors for Over 24 Years
- Financial Media Misused to Perpetrate Ponzi Scheme
- Risk of Tax-Backed Municipal Bonds Grows
- New York Increases Investor Protection
- Have Citigroup and Morgan Stanley Really Changed?
- Victims of Investment Malpractice or Other Financial Misconduct During the Recent Financial Crisis May Be on the Verge of Losing Legal Rights
- Are Terrorists Targeting Wall Street?
- Investment Malpractice -A General Overview
- Securities Industry Opposes Both Self Reporting and Whistleblower Rules - What are They Trying to Hide?
- Recent Study Concludes that Senior Executives of Large Financial Institutions Took Excessive Risks and Padded Their Own Pockets while Dumping the Losses on Unsuspecting Investors
- Wall Street Whistleblower Program Already Paying Off
- Serious Concerns Arise Concerning Complex Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- Forex Fraud Claims Just Keep Coming
- Ill-Advised Budget Cuts Threaten the Integrity of U.S. Capital Markets
- "Gouging" Issues Permeate Forex Trades
- Citigroup Hit with a $6.4 Million Judgement Involving its MAT/ASTA Municipal Arbitrage Funds.
- Preferred Stocks Are Not Low Risk Havens For Investors
- Expert Predicts a Much Worse Financial Crisis in 2015
- Brokerage Firm QA3 Will Cease Operations as a Result of Soured Private Offerings
- Private (Reg D) Offerings, Reverse Convertibles and Leveraged ETFs are on FINRA's Hit List
- Prosecutors Probe Forex Abuses by Bank of New York Mellon and State Street Corp.
- J.P. Morgan Allegedly at the Center of the Madoff Fraud
- Indexed Annuities are Particularly Bad Investments for Senior Citizens
- Forex Firms Charged With Illegal Currency Trading
- It's Business as Usual on Wall Street - Paychecks Reach All-Time Highs
- The State of New York is Investigating Bond Insurers' Claims that They were Defrauded by Wall Street Firms
- SEC Charges Company with Massive Life Settlement Fraud
- Wall Street's Pay Structures Caused Excessive Risk Taking, Contributed to the Financial Crisis
- Investor Alert - The Worst Investment Ever?
- Bank of America Unit Sued by Institutional Investors for "Massive Fraud" Involving Mortgage-Backed Securities
- South Carolina Sues The Bank of New York Over Toxic Lehman Brothers Debt and Subprime Securities
- Commission Concludes that Wall Street was a Major Cause of the Financial Crisis
- Some Financial Advisors Don't Put Their Clients' Interests First
- Concerns Arise Regarding the Adequacy of Disclosure in the Municipal Bond Markets
- Mortgage Problems Continue to Haunt Bank of America
- Wall Street Returns to the "Days of Wine and Roses"
- Index Annuities are Extremely Rewarding - For the People that Sell Them
- North Carolina Investment Adviser Sued for Fraud
- SEC Investigates Illinois
- SEC Investigates Investments in Life Insurance Policies and Viatical Settlements
- UBS's Sale of Lehman Principal Protected Notes Was an Unmitigated Disaster for Investors
- Barclays Hit with $108 Million Charge
- Investors Exit Municipal Bonds as Congress Explores Bankruptcy for States
- Securities Regulators Voice Concerns About Peer-to-Peer Loans
- Are Municipal Bond Fears Overblown?
- New York Investment Firms Charged with Fraud
- Are Republicans Trying to Derail Financial Markets Reform and Frustrate Enforcement of Antifraud Laws?
- Fraud Permeates the Forex Markets
- The Financial Press Continues Its Attack on Equity Index Annuities
- Broker/Dealer Capital Financial Attempts to Circumvent the Arbitration Process and the Bankruptcy Laws
- Vanguard's Actions Reveal Concerns about the Municipal Bonds Market
- 'Alternative" Bond Funds Carry Huge Risks
- Investors in Life Insurance Policies and Viatical Settlements Are Urged to Beware
- Forex Trading Under Investigation
- InvestmentNews - All Brokers and Advisers Should Be "Fiduciaries"
- Investor Alert - Beware of Tenant-in-Common (TIC) Interests in Real Estate Sold as Safe Investments
- Are Wall Street Banks Concealing Their True Exposure to Mortgage Securities Problems
- Broker Defrauds Nuns
- Securities America's Medical Capital Notes "Nightmare" Continues
- Bond Insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Sues Goldman Sachs for Fraud Involving CDOs
- Monoline Insurer MBIA Accuses Wall Street Banks of Fraud Regarding Mortgage-Backed Securities
- Reverse Convertibles and Similar Structured Products are "Unsafe at any Speed"
- ProPublica and CDOs
- Another Cautionary Note to Hedge Fund Investors
- Investor in Medical Capital Notes Recovers $1.2 Million from Securities America
- Most Investors Don't Understand Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- Affinity Fraud Underlies Many Ponzi Schemes
- The Beat Goes On - UBS Loses Another Lehman Structured Notes Case
- Cons and Scams on the Rise - Big Promises Yield No Rewards
- The SEC Should Make It Clear That Brokers Are Fiduciaries
- $17 Million Investment Scam Uncovered in Texas
- Page Perry and Robert Wayne Pearce,PA Dissolve Joint Venture
- Peer-to-Peer Investment Schemes Are Very Risky
- Citi CDOs Under Investigation
- Large Investors Who Have Sustained Losses on Auction Rate Securities Investments Need to Take Action
- Investor Alert - Former Wachovia Securities Brokers William Harrison and Eddie Sawyers (d/b/a "Harrison/Sawyers Financial Services)
- "Mirrored Investing" Carries Extreme Risks
- Corporate America Aggressively Opposes Whistleblower Laws
- Investor Update on the Madoff Ponzi Scheme
- Interest Rate Swaps Haunt Municipalities and Non-Profits
- Wall Street Banks and Big Business Fear Whistleblower Laws
- Is Your Financial Adviser as Good as He or She Looks?
- Bank of America Pays $137 Million in Restitution for Fraudulent Bid-Rigging in the Muni Markets
- Federal Task Force Targets Street Fraud
- Beware of Structured Products
- Wall Street Banks Seek to Bury Their Toxic CDO Problems
- Institutional Investors Sue to Recover Mortgage-Backed Securities Losses
- Are Wall Street Banks Making Employees "Scapegoats" for the Firms' Misconduct
- Why Are Corporations So Afraid of 'Whistleblower" Laws? -What Are They Trying to Hide?
- Are Muni Investors in for Trouble in 2011?
- Forbes - Equity Indexed Annuities are a "Racket"
- Massive Insider Trading Probe Indicates How Much the Investment Markets are Rigged
- Investor Alert - Private (Reg D) Offering Abuses are on the Increase
- Proposed Changes to New York Law Would Make Wall Street More Accountable
- Despite Some Cracks in the Armor, Most of Wall Street Continues Business as Usual with No Regrets
- Storm Clouds Gathering Over the Municipal Markets?
- Disillusioned Brokers Seek "Greener Pastures"
- Investor Alert - Former Morgan Stanley Broker Joey Wade Dean Accused of Misconduct in the Sale of Principal Protected Notes
- Structured Notes Carry Big Risks for Unwary Investors
- Kauffman Foundation Warns of Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Risks
- Institutional Investors Are Suing Financial Firms Over the Mortgage Mess
- Is Fed Action Fostering Another Bubble?
- Social Networking Services Present a New Risk for Investors
- Brokers May Reap Big Rewards for Reporting Alleged Fraudulent Conduct by Citigroup in the MAT/ASTA Municipal Arbitrage Funds
- Front Page Article in the Wall Street Journal Highlights Recent MAT/ASTA Arbitration Award
- Many Auction Rate Securities Investors Remain Left Out in the Cold
- Suit Alleges Manipulation of the Silver Markets
- Investments in Exchange Trade Funds (ETFs) Surge - Risk Grows
- Bank of America Principal Protected Notes May Create More Problems for Wall Street Firms
- Whistleblower Claims that Bank of America Misrepresented Structured Notes to Investors
- The European Debt Crisis May Be Far From Over
- Institutional Investors Begin Fulfilling Fiduciary Duties by Filing Claims to Recoup Subprime Losses
- SEC Wants More Disclosure from Municipal Bond Issuers
- Do Your Financial Adviser's Credentials Really Mean Anything?
- The SEC Charges Atlanta Hedge Fund Managers With Fraud
- Securities Broker Wins Big Whistleblower Award
- Due Diligence Concerns Permeate Private (Reg D) Offerings
- Investors Should Be Wary of Niche Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- Danger Ahead for Bond Investments?
- Wall Street Firms May Face Problems Collecting on Bonus Loans and Retention Loans Given to Brokers
- Stockbrokers Switching Firms Should Proceed with Caution
- The SEC's Decision to Pursue Only 'Slam Dunk' Cases Undermines Effective Enforcement
- Wall Street Opposes Move to All Public Arbitration Panels
- Municipal Pension Plans Sue UBS To Recover Losses In Structured Product Investments
- SEC Investigates Sales of Model Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Portfolios
- FINRA's Executive Compensation Packages Raise Serious Questions
- Retirees Are Being Duped Into Purchasing High Risk Structured Products That They Do Not Understand
- Citigroup's Mismanagement of MAT/ASTA Funds Produces "Grand Slam" Award for Investors
- Could Program Trading Cause Another "Flash Crash?" - Unfortunately the Answer is "Yes"
- Is the Morgan Stanley/Smith Barney Merger Coming Unglued?
- Regulators Focus on Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- Brokerage Firms Continue to Abuse the Arbitration Process
- Investor Recovers Ten Times The Amount Of Investment In Auction Rate Securities Arbitration
- Danger Permeates Exotic ETFs
- There's a New Watchdog on Wall Street - Whistleblowers Poised to Reap Huge Benefits
- Life Settlement Investments Need to be Regulated
- Goldman Sued for Gender Discrimination
- 97% of Americans Believe that Securities Brokers Are (And Should Be) Held to a Fiduciary Standard
- Some Money Market Funds are Taking on More Risk
- Charles Schwab's Total Bond Market Fund Has Become a Focus of Investor Claims
- Proposed SEC Settlement with Citi is No Real Deterrent to Fraud
- The Securities and Insurance Industries Oppose Rules that Would Require Them to Put Their Customers' Interests First
- Real Change is Needed to Avert Another Financial Crisis
- The MAT/ASTA Municipal Arbitrage Funds - Citi's Latest Product Problems
- Red Flags Rise at Some Target Date Mutual Funds
- Equity Indexed Annuities Criticized
- Madoff "Feeder Fund" Investors Awarded $12.74 million
- The SEC Backs Down Again - Gives Moody's a Free Pass
- Raymond James' Auction Rate Securities Problems Mount
- Judges Begin to Question "Sweetheart" Securities Regulatory Settlements
- More Municipal Fraud Charges Ahead?
- Bubbles in the Bond Markets?
- Georgia Court Upholds $4.1 Million Damage Award Against SunTrust Robinson Humphrey for Terminating and Defaming a Broker who Sold Auction Rate Securities
- Has Congress Dumped Unreasonable Hedge Fund Oversight Responsibility on the States?
- Forbes Magazine Warns Investors about Equity-Indexed Annuities
- New Jersey Sued by SEC for Securities Fraud
- It's Not Too Late for Investors to Obtain Recovery of MAT/ASTA Municipal Arbitrage Losses
- FINRA Investigates CDO Sales Practice Abuses by Morgan Stanley, Barclays and Credit Suisse
- Morgan Stanley's Research Abuses Continue - The Beat Goes On
- New Law Provides Big Rewards for Securities Fraud Whistleblowers
- Citi Knew of Subprime Problems and Risks in 2006
- Wall Street Banks Seek to Avoid Responsibilty for Checking Out Mortgage Securities They Sell to the Public
- Merrill Lynch Concealed Subprime Risks Using Tricky Tactics
- Structured Notes Will Be "The Next Bubble" According to Former Federal Reserve Official
- Senior Citizens are Increasingly Targeted by Swindlers Who are Often Senior Citizens
- Regulators Expect a Huge Volume of New Securities Fraud Cases Because of Whistlerblower Incentives
- Investor Alert: Reverse Convertibles Can Be Extremely Toxic
- NASAA's Top Ten Investment Scams for 2010
- Regulators Charge TD Ameritrade and Amerivest Investment Management with Fraud
- Regulators Report that Investment Scams are on the Rise
- Arbitration Panel Renders an $80 Million Award Against UBS for Improper Sales of Auction Rate Securities
- Citigroup Affiliates Found Liable for Mismanaging the MAT/ASTA Municipal Arbitrage Funds
- Citi Pays a Cheap Price for Lying to the Public - When is the SEC Going to get Serious about Fraud?
- Investors Are Winning MAT/ASTA Claims Against Citigroup/Smith Barney
- Wall Street Executives Get $1.6 Billion, Main Street America Picks Up the Tab
- First Republic Municipal Arbitrage Investors Recover Substantial Damages
- SunTrust Burns Elderly Victims
- Financial Abuse of the Elderly has become a Growth Business
- Bondholders Sue Citigroup for Misrepresntations Regarding CDOs and Other Toxic Securities
- Special Interest Groups and Partisan Politics Thwart Necessary Financial Legislation
- Is Goldman Getting Off Too Easy in its SEC Settlement?
- Soon You Will Be Able to Learn More about Your Financial Adviser
- Brokers Dump Low Quality Securities on Elderly Investors
- Brokers Continue to Leave Major Wall Street Firms
- The SEC Bans "Pay to Play" Abuses Associated with the Management of Public Pension Funds
- Wall Street's Dump of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae Preferred Stocks Cost Investors Billions
- Wall Street's Sale of Toxic CDOs Undermines Education and Other Government Services
- SEC Investigates Sales of So-Called "Principal Protected" Notes
- Billionaire Investor Believes that the Economy is Still in the Danger Zone
- Do Hedge Funds and Insider Trading "Go Hand in Hand?"
- A Bubble in the Bond Market?
- Are Exotic Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) an Investment Time Bomb?
- Goldman Faces Allegations that It Pushed A.I.G. Over the Cliff
- Municipal Bond Defaults Are Increasing
- Wall Street Intensifies Efforts to Thwart Financial Reform as Greed Trumps Common Sense
- SEC Seeks to "Clawback" Benefits from an "Innocent" CEO
- "Financial Innovation" Benefits Wall Street at Investors' Expense
- Red Flags Concerning Medical Capital Notes Existed as Early as 2004
- Page Perry Clients Win MAT Municipal Arbitrage Claims Against Citigroup/Smith Barney
- Risks Grow in the Municipal Bond Markets
- It's Time to Stop the Securities Industry's Efforts to Poach High Level SEC Personnel
- Arbitrators Hammer Credit Suisse Again for Improper Sales of Auction Rate Securities
- Wealthy Individuals Have Been Victimized By Wall Street's CDO Fraud
- Local Governments and Non-Profits Have Suffered Catastrophic Losses as a Result of Wall Street's Excesses
- SEC Expands Investigation of Goldman Sachs CDO Abuses
- What Is Goldman Sachs Trying To Hide?
- Wall Street Abuses Have Significantly Increased the Economic Problems Currently Faced by State and Local Governments
- On A Lighter Note...
- Credit Union Joins Long Line of Victims Damaged by Toxic CDOs
- Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Were Far More Volatile than Stocks in the Recent Flash Crash
- Problems Involving Private Offerings Escalate
- The FDIC Has Been Left Holding Substantial Toxic CDO Debt
- Bonds - Is It Time To Be Cautious?
- Investors Have Sustained Huge Losses Investing in Small Banks
- Have Municipal Bonds Become High Risk Securities?
- Were Toxic CDO Investments Deliberately Dumped on Unsuspecting Investors?
- Lehman Bankruptcy Estate Sues JP Morgan Over Breach of Trust
- Interest Rate Swaps Sold by Wall Street Banks Decimate Local Government Resources
- Is HighTower Advisors All That It Claims To Be?
- Many Brokerage Firms That Sold "100% Principal Protected Notes" Misled Investors
- Is Goldman Posturing to Settle the SEC's CDO Fraud Claims
- JP Morgan Reverse Convertibles "Knock Out Investors in the First Round"
- Wall Street Special Interest Groups Are Spending Huge Sums to Thwart Financial Reform
- Reverse Convertible Notes Can Be Poisonous for Investor Portfolios
- Morgan Stanley's Baldwin CDOs - Doomed to Fail?
- CDO Fraud Probes Explode Across Wall Street
- Federal Prosecutors Target Morgan Stanley in CDO Fraud Investigation
- Broker-Dealers Must Be Held to a Real Fiduciary Standard
- Goldman Sachs and SEC Reportedly Talk Settlement
- USA Today: Why Financial Reform is Needed
- Two-Thirds of Americans Want Tougher Financial Regulation of Wall Street
- Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Plans to Close 120 Offices - Impact on Current Employees Unknown
- Investors Recover Losses on Main Street Natural Gas Bonds
- Wall Street's "Moral Corruption" Goes Far Beyond Goldman Sachs
- Goldman Sachs Refuses to Confirm that "Goldman Puts Its Clients' Interests First
- Senate Probe Reveals Goldman Sachs' Scheme to Defraud Investors in the Sale of Toxic Securities
- Goldman Sachs' Problems Continue to Grow
- SEC Action Against Private Equity Fund Onyx Capital Advisors May Expose Brokerage Firm to Significant Legal Claims
- Financial Reform - "Put the Fear of God into Wall Street"
- SEC Scrutinizes Use of Derivatives by Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- Goldman - Like CDO Abuses Were Prevalent Across Wall Street
- Republican Commissioners Opposed SEC Action Against Goldman Sachs
- USAToday Observes that Wall Street Banks "Are No Longer in the Game for Their Clients but for Themselves"
- Capital Markets Will Suffer as the Distrust of Wall Street Grows
- SEC Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud in the Creation and Sale of Subprime CDOs
- Arbitrators Hammer UBS for Improper Sales of Lehman Principal Protected Notes
- Wall Street's Breach of Trust
- Beware of These Investment Scams
- Regulatory Actions Against Morgan Keegan Raise Grave Doubts about the FINRA Arbitration Process
- Investors Are Winning Cases Against Wall Street Banks
- Many Wall Street Banks Disguised CDO Scraps as Tasty Morsels
- Goldman - Why So Defensive?
- The Revolving Door at the SEC Compromises Investigations
- Regulators Sue Morgan Keegan Over Toxic Bond Funds
- Goldman Sachs Bet Against Toxic Subprime Investments that it Was Recommending to Unsuspecting Investors
- Was Goldman Sachs Honest in Recommending CDOs and Other Mortgage Backed Securities to Its Clients?
- Have You Lost Money in a Hedge Fund?
- Goldman Sachs Unloaded Toxic CDOs and Other Mortgage-Backed Securities on Foreign Investors
- Is Your Financial Adviser Acting in Your Best Interest?
- The Brokerage Industry is Winning its Fight Against Financial Reform
- Municipalities Are Beginning to Understand that They Were Duped by Wall Street
- The Demise of Lehman Brothers Confirms How Senior Government Officials Abdicated Their Responsibility to the American People
- More Concerns Arise Regarding Bond Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- The Hammer is Coming Down on Private Placement (Reg D) Offering Scams
- Wall Street Banks and Similar Special Interest Groups Frustrate Meaningful Financial Reform
- The Majority of Americans Believe that Self-Regulation and Existing Governmental Regulation of the Financial Industry is an Abject Failure
- It's Official - Most Americans Despise Wall Street
- Many Investment Scams Target Small Town Investors
- Life Settlement Investments Carry Big Risks
- A Primer on Immediate Annuities
- Beware Private Placements (Reg D Offerings) Investing in Life Settlement Policies
- Is FINRA Serious about Change or Just Looking for Someone to Blame?
- Sophisticated Investors Win Millions in Toxic Bond Fund Cases Against Morgan Keegan
- Is the SEC Finally Going to Act Like Investors Come First?
- Government Watchdog Calls for Elimination of FINRA
- Reverse Convertible Notes and Similar Non-Conventional Investments are Unsuitable for Many Investors
- Hidden Risks Exist in Bond Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- Auction Rate Securities Abuses Contribute to State's Financial Woes
- Auction Rate Securities Abuses Contribute to State's Financial Woes
- Former UBS Executive Settles Regulatory Auction Rate Securities Action
- Morgan Keegan's Legal Costs Soar Under an Avalanche of Claims
- Tennessee State Court Ruling Undermines Securities Arbitration
- Is the SEC's Ineffectiveness the Result of Political Discord?
- Medical Capital Debacle Puts Private (Reg D) Offerings under the Microscope
- Have College Endowment Funds Been Victimized by Unscrupulous Brokers?
- Federal Home Loan Bank Sues Securities Firms to Recover Subprime Losses
- Are Investors Being Adequately Informed about the Risks of Target Date Mutual Funds?
- Beware the Hidden Risks of Exotic Exchange Traded Funds ("ETFs")
- JP Morgan Sued For Auction Rate Securities Losses
- Charles Schwab Confirms Trend of Brokers Breaking Away from Major Firms
- What Are Exchange Traded Funds?
- Securities America Faces a New Wave of Medical Capital Problems
- Exchange Traded Funds ("ETFs") Can Carry Hidden Risks
- Surprise - Brokerage Industry and SEC Chairman Advocate Less Protection for Investors
- FINRA Lays Off Senior Enforcement Personnel At The Very Time They Should Be Needed The Most
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - February 5, 2010
- A Glimpse at How Extensive Investor Abuse Has Been on Wall Street in Recent Years
- Some Short Term Bond Funds Carry Big Risks
- Failures in Financial Regulatory System Allowed Wall Street Firms to Run Wild
- Teachers Sue to Recover Variable Annuity Losses
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 29, 2010
- Evidence Against Securities America Mounts in Medical Capital Cases
- Have Municipal Bonds Become High Risk Investments?
- Broker Sentenced for Fraud in Selling Auction Rate Securities Issued by CDO's
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 22, 2010
- SEC Adopts New Custody Rules For Investment Advisers
- Institutional Investors Are Fed Up With Wall Street Pay Excesses Too
- State Securities Commissioners Need More Authority to Fight Investment Fraud
- Does the Proposed Bank Tax Adequately Compensate Taxpayers for the Risks?
- Citi Settles $72 Million Lawsuit Involving Auction Rate Securities
- Wall Street Firms "Thumb Their Noses" at Taxpayers and Washington Politicians - Award Obscene Bonuses Anyway
- The Reason Real Change is Needed - Wall Street Maintains a Business as Usual Stance as Public Hearing Begin on the Financial Crisis
- A Few Basic Considerations in Hiring a Financial Adviser
- Why Do They Sell Variable Annuities? - It's the Commissions Silly
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 8, 2010
- Yes, Wall Street can be Replaced - Independent Brokerage Firms and Investment Advisers are Gaining on Big Wall Street Firms
- FINRA Arbitration Panel Metes Out Harsh Punishment for Elder Fraud
- Exotic New Junk Bonds are Fraught with Risk
- SunTrust Hit with $4.1 Million Damage Award for Terminating and Defaming a Broker who Sold Auction Rate Securities
- The Auction Rate Securities Debacle Continues - Corporate America Takes on Wall Street
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 1, 2010
- Regulators Express Concerns about "Principal-Protected" and "Capital Guaranteed" Investments
- The Lack of Government Enforcement Actions Facilitated the Recent Epidemic of Investment Fraud
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 25, 2009
- Wrongdoing in Reg D Offerings and Other Private Investments Becomes a Growing Concern
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 18, 2009
- SEC Expands Investigation of Merrill Lynch/Bank of America Transaction
- The Beat Goes On - Schwab Loses Another Schwab YieldPlus Case
- Less Than 15 Days are Left for Schwab YieldPlus Investors to Preserve their Rights
- Investor Alert: Main Street Natural Gas Bonds Backed by Lehman Brothers
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 11, 2009
- The Dangers of Private Investments (Reg D Offerings) Grow
- Investors in Lehman Principal-Protected Notes Have an Opportunity to Recoup Their Losses
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 3, 2009
- Wall Street Recruiting Packages Put Customers At Risk
- Investors Sue to Recover Losses on Main Street Natural Gas Bonds
- Dow Corning Files Another Auction Rate Securities Lawsuit
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 27, 2009
- Wall Street Shows its True Colors - Tries to Undermine Application of a Real Fiduciary Standard to its Activities
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 20, 2009
- Only 40 Days Left for Schwab YieldPlus Investors to Preserve their Rights
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 13, 2009
- Reg D Offerings and Other Private Investments Expose Investors to Huge Risks
- BB & T Sued over Auction Rate Securities Abuses
- Medical Capital Holdings Alert - Investors Face Tremendous Losses
- Financial Abuse of Senior Citizens is a Growing Problem but Remedies are Available
- Time is Running Out on Schwab YieldPlus Investors who Want to Opt Out of the Class Action
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 6, 2009
- Examinations of Investment Advisers Are Becoming More Demanding
- Private Investments (a/k/a Reg D Investments) Pose Significant Risks to Investors
- Have You Lost Money in ETF's?
- Schwab YieldPlus Investors Should Consider Their Options
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 30, 2009
- Credit Suisse Sued Again over Auction Rate Securities Abuses
- It's Time to Eliminate Industry Bias from Securities Arbitration
- Ameriprise Settles Deceptive Sales Practices Charges
- The SEC Must Adopt an Aggressive Enforcement Program if it is to Restore its Credibility
- Court or Arbitration - Brokerage Firms Want to have their Cake and Eat it Too
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 23, 2009
- California Sues State Street Bank and Trust
- Arbitration or Class Action - Which is Better for Investors?
- FINRA "Missed Opportunities" to Stop Madoff and Stanford Ponzi Schemes
- SEC Threatens Action Over Schwab YieldPlus Fund
- Congress Considers Regulation of OTC Derivatives
- Jury Finds That Allianz Life Insurance Company Used Misrepresentation Or Deceptive Practice In Selling Its Two-Tiered Annuities
- Investors Sue the SEC
- Investor Alert: Schwab YieldPlus Class Notice Issued
- Wall Street's Defense Tactics Confirm Betrayal of Corporate Clients
- Now is the Time for Serious Financial Reform
- Abuses in Credit Card Arbitration Raise Similar Questions about Securities Arbitration
- More Criticism is Leveled at Federal Securities Regulators
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 2, 2009
- The Beat Goes On - Hedge Fund Manager Wins Large Award in Schwab YieldPlus Case
- Market Watchdog is a Market Speculator
- Wall Street Doesn't Want to Hear the Truth - In Fact, the Truth May Get You Fired!
- Malpractice Reform - The Other Side of the Story
- Medical Capital Holdings Update: Receiver Estimates Over $1 Billion Due Investors
- Where is the Accountability of our Financial Regulators?
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 25, 2009
- Wall Street Firms Want a "Free Pass" for Ripping Off State and Municipal Governments
- Moody's Whistleblower to Testify before Congress on Ratings Fraud
- Judge Tells the SEC and Bank of America to Fight it out in Court
- Regions Bank's SEC Problems Grow
- Federal Judges are "Throwing the Book" at Securities Scoundrels- When are the Regulators Going to Join the Party?
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 18, 2009
- Court Ruling Paves Way for Legal Claims against Credit Ratings Firms
- Investor Wins Full Market Adjusted Damages in Schwab YieldPlus Case
- Hedge Fund Sues UBS for Selling "Crap" and "Vomit"
- Inspector General Continues to Blast SEC
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 11, 2009
- Investors Recover Damages Plus Attorneys Fees from Schwab in Schwab YieldPlus Case
- Court Certifies Schwab YieldPlus Class Action but Leaves Many YieldPlus Investors "Out in the Cold"
- Auction Rate Securities Debacle Reveals Wall Street's Betrayal of Corporate Investors
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 4, 2009
- More Toxic Structured Finance Securities are on the Way to Market
- Concerns about Leveraged Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Increase
- Inspector General Criticizes SEC Oversight of Credit Ratings Firms
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - August 28, 2009
- Investor Sues Nuveen, Merrill, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank over Auction Rate Securities
- Regulators Issue Warnings about Leveraged Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) and Other Toxic Investments
- The SEC Simply Does Not Have Sufficient Resources To Do Its Job
- Despite Assurances to Investors, Schwab Doesn't Want to Play by the Rules
- How Much did Securities America Really Know about Problems at Medical Capital Holdings?
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - August 21, 2009
- State Street's Subprime Woes Continue
- Auction Rate Securities Class Action Dismissed When Brokerage Firm Buys Back Holdings of Investor
- More Investor Claims Focus on Sales of Preferred Stocks Issued by Financial Institutions
- Securities Regulators Questioned about Dropping the Ball
- Bad News for Brokerage Firms that Sold Auction Rate Securities
- Small Brokerage Firms Are Attracting Big Firm Traders
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - August 14, 2009
- Norwegian Cities Sue Citigroup to Recover Losses in Tender Option Bond Funds
- SEC Settlement with Bank of America Hits a Roadblock
- Is the SEC's Recent Activity the "Real Thing?"
- Class Action Filed Over Leveraged and Inverse ETF Securities
- Raymond James Ignores Customers to Whom it Sold Auction Rate Securities
- Morgan Keegan Continues "Hardball" Arbitration Tactics
- False Valuations of Structured Finance Securities Continue to Concern Regulators
- Major Wall Street Firms Losing Customers
- Sales of Leveraged and Inverse ETFs Expose Wall Street Firms to Liability for Misrepresentation and Unsuitable Recommendations
- Judge Refuses to Rubber Stamp SEC Settlement with Bank of America
- Large Investors Are Pursuing Auction Rate Securities Claims
- Regulators Investigate Sales of Leveraged and Inverse ETFs
- Bank of America Pays $33 million to Settle with the SEC
- SEC Charges Medical Capital Holdings and Provident Asset Management with Fraud
- Beware Leveraged and Inverse Exchange Traded Funds
- SEC Cracks Down on Phoenix Investment Fraud
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - July 31, 2009
- It's Time for Arbitrators to Grant Investors Access to the SEC Evidence that Morgan Keegan Is Trying to Hide
- Elder Fraud Cases Lead to More Criminal Prosecutions
- Senior Citizen Accuses UBS of $26 Million Fraud
- Insurance Companies Try to Thwart SEC Oversight of Equity Indexed Annuities
- Wall Street Trade Association Supports Fiduciary Standard
- Morgan Stanley Sanctioned for Misleading Investors about Money Managers
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - July 24, 2009
- Leveraged and Inverse Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) Are Dangerous to Investors Financial Health
- SEC Charges Morgan Keegan with Fraud in the Sale of Auction Rate Securities
- New York Attorney General Notifies Schwab of Intent to Sue over Auction Rate Securities Fraud
- SEC Notifies Morgan Keegan of Intent to Recommend Enforcement Action Involving Toxic Mutual Funds
- Regulators Settle Auction Rate Securities Claims Against TD Ameritrade
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - July 17, 2009
- Regulators Investigate Fraud in the Municipal Bond Market
- Wall Street Firms Still Don't Get It - They Continue to Sell Toxic Securities as AAA Investments
- Ameriprise Pays $17 Million to Resolve Conflicts of Interest Claims
- UBS Will Retain Its Wealth Management Business For The Time Being
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - July 10, 2009
- UBS Sued For CDO Scam
- How Far Should Brokerage Firms Be Permitted To Go In Investigating Employees?
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - July 3, 2009
- Broker Defections from Major Wall Street Firms on the Rise
- Pending Legislation to End Mandatory Securities Arbitration?
- Investors Need to be Careful with Target-Date Mutual Funds
- JPMorgan Sued for Sale of High Risk, Illiquid Real Estate Investments
- Lehman Brothers Hit with $190 Million Suit over Auction Rate Securities
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - June 26, 2009
- "100% Principal Protected Notes" - Designed to Deceive?
- Danger Ahead for Investors in Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
- It's Time to Make Securities Arbitration Completely Neutral
- Toxic Securities Alert: Reverse Convertibles
- Investors Left Out of the Auction Rate Securities Regulatory Settlements Are Suing to Recover Losses
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - June 19, 2009
- Wall Street's "Fiduciary Duties" Should Be Formalized
- Obama Proposal Urges Review of Mandatory Securities Arbitration
- Schwab Sued for Deceptive Sales of Lehman Principal Protected Notes
- Book Review: The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street
- Aura Financial Services Hit with Multiple Regulatory Charges
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - June 12, 2009
- The Mortgage-Backed Securities Market - Is the Other Shoe Getting Ready to Drop?
- FINRA Proposes Improving Disclosures about Brokers' Backgrounds
- Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley "Tie the Knot"
- SEC's Aguilar Stands Up for Investors - Let's Hope Someone Listens
- Auction Rate Securities Update: Why Are The Regulators Ignoring Raymond James's Customers?
- Evergreen Pays Over $40 Million to Settle SEC Charges that it Overvalued Mortgage-Backed Investments
- It's Time for Better Regulation of the Financial Markets
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - June 5, 2009
- 2009: A Very Bad Year for Georgia Banks
- OppenheimerFunds 529 Plans Under Fire
- Let's Give State Securities Regulators the Tools to do their Job
- Addressing Recent Wall Street Misconduct Requires The SEC to Adopt Creative Approaches
- Wall Street Firms Battle Over Assets Under Management
- Variable Rate Annuities with Guarantees? - Check the Fine Print
- Merrill Lynch Accused Of Insider Trading "Down Under"
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - May 29, 2009
- Is the SEC Willing to Sue the "Big Boys" for Misleading the Public Regarding the Risks of Structured Finance Securities?
- Equity Indexed Universal Life - Typically a Bad Idea
- Public Confidence in SEC Sinks to New Low
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - May 22, 2009
- Virginia Files Suit Over Auction Rate Securities
- States Are Acting to Deal with Financial Frauds Aimed at Seniors
- Alabama Judge Files Shareholder Derivative Action Against Regions' Executives
- SunTrust Backs Out Of Deal To Pay Back Investor Losses
- Regulators Require Financial Firms to Provide More Public Disclosure Regarding Customer Complaints
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - May 15, 2009
- Auction Rate Securities - Morgan Keegan's Latest Problem
- The Obama Administration Proposes to Regulate Derivatives
- Bank of America's Attempts to Strong-Arm Fired Employees May Result in Legal Liability
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - May 8, 2009
- Wall Street Firms Still Preoccupied with Big Sales not Good Advice
- Is the SEC Really Serious about its Vow to Regulate Credit Derivatives?
- Wall Street Firms Try to Make Others the Scapegoat for Problems of their Own Making
- Securities Credit Ratings Agencies Under Attack
- Morgan Keegan Loses Two More Toxic Bond Fund Cases
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - May 1, 2009
- Issuers of Auction Rate Securities And Their Executive Officers Are Being Hit With Legal Actions
- Auction Rate Securities Article Raises Questions about FINRA's Commitment to the Protection of Investors
- Questionable Sales Practices Haunt Fidelity
- OppenheimerFunds Confronting Big Mutual Fund Problems
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - April 24, 2009
- Registered Investment Advisors Have Liability Exposure for Imprudent Recommendations of Asset Managers
- Ashland, Inc Sues Oppenheimer for Mismarketing Auction-Rate Securities
- More Corporate Clients Sue Citigroup Over Auction-Rate Securities
- Investor Awarded Losses, Costs and Attorneys Fees in Morgan Keegan Bond Case
- Bank of America Ordered To Pay $2 Million To Atlanta Couple
- Corporate Fraud Needs to be a Government Priority
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - April 17, 2009
- Franchise Fraud Claims Increase as Economy Deteriorates
- Big Banks Continue "to Bite the Hand that Feeds Them
- Morgan Keegan Hit for $950,000 Loss on Toxic Bond Fund Case
- UBS Expected to Cut Thousands of More Jobs
- Tobacco Settlement Bonds Give Rise to Legal Claims
- Now is the Best Time to Review your Investment Portfolio
- Financial Scams Are Becoming More Common as the Economy Deteriorates
- Corporations and Institutions Are Actively Pursuing Auction-Rate Securities Claims
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - April 10, 2009
- Investors Beware: Commodities Scams are on the Rise
- Financial Advisors May Have Legal Exposure in Atlanta Ponzi Scheme
- State Securities Regulators: An Essential Component of Investor Protection
- Money Market Funds "Feeling the Heat"
- Securities Arbitration Claims Explode
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - April 3, 2009
- Financial Accounting Standards Board Approves Fictitious Valuations - Is Anything Sacred Anymore?
- The News Continues to get Worse for Morgan Keegan and its Toxic Bond Funds
- Arbitrators Have an Important Role in Keeping the Financial Markets Honest
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - March 27, 2009
- Criminal Investigations into Financial Fraud - "Window Dressing" or a Serious Trend?
- State Pension Fund Sues Lehman Executives
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - March 20, 2009
- Arbitration Panel Compensates Investor for Losses Sustained in Morgan Keegan Bond Funds
- Wells Fargo's Auction-Rate Securities Problems Mount
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - March 6, 2009
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - February 27, 2009
- Suit Against Moody's Allowed to Proceed
- It Is Time To Give Investors Back Their Rights
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - February 20, 2009
- Things Continue to Get Worse for Auction-Rate Securities Investors
- "Downstream" Broker-Dealer Sues Merrill Over Auction-Rate Securities
- SEC Charges R. Allen Stanford In Huge Fraud
- Corporate Investors Holding Auction-Rate Securities Face Scrutiny by the SEC
- SEC and FINRA Regulatory Actions - To Fight or To Settle
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - February 13, 2009
- Corporate Investor Wins $400 Million on Auction-Rate Securities Claim
- Elimination of Bonuses Creates Discontent on Wall Street
- Lehman Underwriters Under Attack
- Corporations Begin Holding Wall Street Accountable for the Auction-Rate Securities Debacle
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - February 6, 2009
- Employee Lawsuits Explode as Layoffs Rise
- Investment Advisors and Broker Dealers Will Face More Scrutiny After Madoff
- Wall Street Misled Issuers of Auction-Rate Securities Too
- More Dishonesty from Wall Street - This Time Cheating State and Local Governments as well as Taxpayers
- Washington State Sues Wells Fargo Over Auction-Rate Securities
- It's Time to Stop Letting Wall Street Judge Wall Street
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 30, 2009
- Wall Street's Greed Knows No Bounds
- Citigroup Continued to Sell Auction-Rate Securities Despite Knowledge of "Cracks Forming in the Market"
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 23, 2009
- Understanding Brokers' Suitability Obligations in the Era of CDOs, Interest Rate Swaps and Auction-Rate Securities
- Tick-Tock: Spurned Auction-Rate Securities Investors Need to Monitor the Clock
- Sophisticated CDO and Structured Finance Investors Have Rights Too
- Unapproved Investments Cause Ameriprise Big Problems
- Raymond James Refuses Auction-Rate Securities Buyback - Leaves Its Clients "Out In The Cold"
- CDO Investors Recover $550 Million From Brokerage Firm
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 16, 2009
- Variable Annuities Warrant Close Scrutiny
- Clock Strikes Midnight for Many CDO and Structured Finance Investors
- School Districts Face Huge Losses in CDOs
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 9, 2009
- Many Investors Discover That It's Not "Just the Market"
- Considerations for your Annual Investment Checkup
- Don't Fall into the Equity Indexed Annuity Trap
- "Fair Value Accounting Rule" Puts Auditors on the "Hot Seat"
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 2, 2009
- Investors Need to Scrutinize their Year-end Brokerage Statements
- FINRA Needs Arbitrators
- CNN Poll Confirms Public's Distrust of Wall Street
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 19 , 2008
- Some Tips for Victims of the Madoff Ponzi Scheme
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 12 , 2008
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 5 , 2008
- Not All Auction Rate Securities Investors Are Getting Their Money Back
- Additional Job Cuts on Wall Sreet
- Is Your Variable Annuity Safe ?
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 21 , 2008
- Deutsche Bank Cutting Investment Banking Jobs
- Where is the Transparency ?
- Citigroup To Lay Off 50,000 More Employees
- World's Largest Mutual Fund Company Lays Off Employees
- The Fall Of The House Of Merrill
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 14 , 2008
- Citigroup Slashes More Jobs
- Excessive Secrecy And The Bailout
- Structured Notes Issued by Lehman, Freddie and Fannie Leave Conservative Investors Burned
- Bank of America Agrees to Recruiting Protocol
- Wall Street to Cut 70,000 Additional Jobs ?
- World's Largest Mutual Fund Company To Lay Off 1300 Workers
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 7 , 2008
- Employees May Have Legal Claims For Sharp Declines In 401(k) Accounts
- Will Merrill Brokers Stay at Bank of America ?
- Market Volatility Under Investigation
- UBS Faces a Deluge of Claims for Selling Risky Lehman Structured Notes as Safe Investments
- Are Credit Ratings Agencies Just a Bunch of Bull?
- Market Rebound Could Take Five Years
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 31, 2008
- ERISA Fiduciaries May Have Obligations to Seek Recovery of Portfolio Losses
- Former SEC Chief Wants to Put the Fox in Charge of the Henhouse - They Still Don't Get It
- Credit Ratings Agencies Offer Excuses to Congress
- Merrill Brokers Likely to Flee Tarnished Brand
- Wall Street and Government Officials are "Shocked" about the Current Mess
- AIG Brokers in Turmoil - Advisors Who Jump Ship Should Protect Themselves Legally
- Wall Street's Downsizing Increases the Need for Legal Services
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 24, 2008
- Some Layoffs Are More Equal Than Others
- Has Wall Street Destroyed Itself As A Financial Center?
- Bank Shareholders: Is Your Bank Too Troubled And You Won't Find It Out?
- Regulatory Rehab
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 17, 2008
- Wall Street Still Doesn't Get It
- Investors May Be Able to Recover Losses in Lehman Securities
- Credit Crisis Continues to Haunt Merrill Lynch
- UBS Receives a Bailout
- Citigroup Takes Big Write Downs
- Variable Annuities: Usually Bad For Investors, Now Bad For Insurers As Well
- Brokers' Failures to Recommend Reasonable Asset Allocation Strategies Have Caused Huge Losses
- Schwab Loses Big in a YieldPlus Case
- "Barking Madness" or How Excessive Ambition Kills
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 10, 2008
- Financial Stocks Continue to Fall
- Auction-Rate Securities Settlements Likely to Offer Many Complexities and Pitfalls for Investors
- Losses on Securities Issued by Financial Firms Give Rise to Unsuitability and Misrepresntation Claims
- Page Perry's Market Monitor -October 3,2008
- Ten Reasons that the $700 Billion Bailout Plan for Wall Street is a Colossal Mistake
- Only Yesterday - When Banks and Broker-Dealers Were Combined
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 19,2008
- Government Bailouts Place Significant Risks on U.S. Economy and Taxpayers
- FINRA Announces Auction-Rate Securities Settlements with More Firms
- Fed Bailouts - Where Do They End?
- Money Market Funds "Break the Buck"
- The Fed Bails Out AIG
- Credit Suisse Enters into Auction-Rate Securities Settlement with Regulators
- Suitability Claims Expected to Rise as Market Meltdown Continues
- Realistic Valuations of Subprime Securities Likely to Cause a Tidal Wave of Losses Across Wall Street
- Lehman Seeks Bankruptcy Protection
- Bank of America Acquires Merrill Lynch
- Fidelity Reaches Auction-Rate Securities Settlement
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 12, 2008
- Bank of America Announces Settlement of Auction-Rate Securities Probe
- Wall Street Firms Expected to Face Doom and Gloom in the Months Ahead
- SunTrust Considers Settling Auction-Rate Securities Investigations
- Something Old is New Again- Penny Stocks in the News
- Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 5, 2008
- Brokerage Firms Face Suits Over Auction-Rate Securities Issued by CDOs and Other Structured Finance Vehicles
- Many Auction-Rate Securities Investors May Be Left to Fend for Themselves
- Will Lehman Brothers Survive?
- Morgan Stanley Executive: Economic Pain Just Beginning
- Bank of America Told to Settle its Auction-Rate Securities Problems or Else
- SEC Charges Credit Suisse Brokers in Auction-Rate Securities Fraud Scheme
- What's Going On With Auction-Rate Securities Investigations?
- Jefferson County, Alabama Staves Off Bankruptcy
- Visteon Investor Claims May Not Be Barred by Dismissal of Class Action
- Corporations and Institutions Left to Fend for Themselves in Auction-Rate Securities Debacle
- ShoreTel Risks and Related Losses Should Have Been Anticipated
- Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank Join Long List of Firms Settling Auction-Rate Securities Probes
- More and More Experts Paint a Bleak Picture for the U.S. Economy
- Bank of America Withheld Important Information about Auction-Rate Securities from Investors
- Wachovia Joins Auction-Rate Securities Settlement Parade
- Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Get in the Auction-Rate Securities Settlement Line
- Economic Forecast: Expect Things to Get Much Worse
- More Auction-Rate Securities Regulatory Actions On The Horizon
- Morgan Stanley’s Auction-Rate Securities Proposal – “Too Little, Too Late”
- The Fed's Plan to Fund Wall Street's Corruption
- More Auction-Rate Securities Settlements Ahead?
- UBS Will Buy-Back $19.4 Billion of Auction-Rate Securities to Settle Regulatory Actions
- Merrill Lynch Follows Citigroup's Lead- Attempts to Resolve Certain Auction-Rate Securities Claims
- Citigroup Reaches Agreement, in Principle, to Settle Certain Auction-Rate Securities Claims
- Morgan Stanley Admits it Mismarketed Auction-Rate Securities to Massachusetts' Municipalities
- Early Retirement Scams are on the Rise
- State Sues Merrill Lynch For Fraud In The Sale Of Auction-Rate Securities
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- FINRA Announces Pilot Program To Evaluate All-Public Arbitration Panels
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield Of Georgia Exposes Social Security Numbers And Other Personal Information
- Investor Misrepresentation And Omission Claims Escalate
- The Latest Threat To Investors
- Wachovia's Woes Continue
- Should Investors Sell Their Illiquid Auction Rate Securities?
- Securities Arbitration Study Is Disappointing But Does Not Tell The Whole Story About Investor Recoveries
- Wall Street Firms Knew That Failure of the Auction Rate Securities Market Was Imminent
- Check Out Your Broker
- States Raid Wachovia Securities Regarding Auction Rate Securities Abuses
- Has Washington's Bailout Of Wall Street Banks Compromised The SEC's Ability To Regulate And Protect The U.S. Capital Markets?
- SEC Finds "Serious Shortcomings" At Credit-Ratings Agencies
- Investor Suitability Claims on the Rise
- Washington's Bailout Of Financial Firms May Put The United States' AAA Credit Rating At Risk
- UBS Plans to Repurchase $3.5 Billion of Auction Rate Preferred Shares
- Washington Opens The Vault For Wall Street Firms, Slams The Door On Main Street America
- IndyMac Fails Amid Mortgage Problems - FBI Investigates
- Federal Prosecutors Target Auction Rate Securities Abuses
- Massachusetts Hits UBS with Fraud Charges Over Auction-Rate Securities
- Could the Unthinkable Happen- Could Money Market Funds Lose Value?
- Securities Newsletters Turn More Pessimistic
- Main Street America Believes We Are in a Recession
- The Housing Market Continues to Spiral Downward
- The Hidden Costs of Investment Advice
- Bear Market Ahead!
- Credit Crisis only in "4th Inning"
- Investors Beware: Warren Buffet Believes "Recession Getting Worse"
- 175,000 Wall Street Jobs May Be Going, Going, Gone
- Former Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers Indicted
- Citi's Write Downs Continue
- Investors Lose Big As Wachovia Subsidary Liquidates Evergreen Ultra Short Opportunities Fund
- Should Investors Switch to Cash in Order to Avoid a "Very Nasty Period"?
- FINRA To Broker/Dealers - Let The People Sell Their Auction Rate Securities
- Wall Street CEOs Too Optimistic?
- Home Equity Falls To Lowest Level Since World War II
- Have Things Changed At World Financial Group?
- Sign Of The Times: Foreclosure Bus Tour
- Paulson: Financial Turmoil Will End In "Months"
- S&P Slashes Ratings Of Wall Street Banks
- Home Prices Continue To Fall Fast
- Retiring Baby Boomers: Fewer Than Expected
- Falcon Investors: What Are You Releasing?
- Oil And Other Energy Investment Scams Likely On The Rise
- Exodus From Citigroup Becoming A Tsunami?
- Background Check On Financial Advisors May Be Improved
- Oracle Of Omaha: US Is Less Than Halfway Through Credit Crisis
- Regional Banks Writing Off Residential Construction Loans
- Holders Of Student Loan-Backed Auction Rate Securities Facing Endless Winter?
- JP Morgan Chase Lays Off 200 Executives
- Auction Rate Losses Costing Public Companies Over $1.8 Billion
- Short-Seller Einhorn Takes Lehman To Task
- Credit Crisis Viewed As Extending Into 2009
- Home Price Index Reflects Record Continued Decline
- UBS Suffers Loss Of $7 Billion On Sale Of Loans And Plans Sale Of New Shares At Discount
- How The Ailing Economy May Affect Your Nest Egg
- "Color-Blind In A Sea Of Red Flags"
- Stealth Layoffs Hit Wall Street
- Foreclosures In April Up A Surprising 65%
- Cornerstone Ministries Investors May Have Legal Claims Against Brokerage Firms Or Financial Advisors
- FINRA: Beware Early Retirement Scams
- Fixing Wall Street?
- Mortgage Crisis Hits Prime Loans
- With 50,000 Layoffs So Far This Year, Wall Street Employees Must Protect Themselves
- UBS Will Pay $35 Million To Redeem Auction-Rate Securities Sold To Massachusetts' Cities
- Jim Rogers Contradicts Wall Street -- The Worst Is Yet To Come
- Wachovia Receives Auction-Rate Securities Subpoenas
- More Subprime And Alt-A Mortgages Heading Underwater
- Internationally Famous Economist Disputes Wall Street's Claim That "The Worst Is Over"
- Morgan Stanley To Lay Off Five Percent of Work Force
- Ex-Bear Stearns Broker Sentenced For Insider Trading
- UBS Will Cut 5500 More Jobs
- Foreclosures Rising And Home Prices Falling At Unprecedented Rates
- SEC: Atlanta Is A Hotbed Of Investment Fraud
- Citigroup Mismarketed Internal Hedge Funds
- Borrowers Still Struggle To Deal With Delinquent Mortgages
- Adding Insult To Injury: Auction-Rate Bond Investors Get Almost 0% Interest On Securities They Cannot Sell
- Economists Pessimistic, Recession Expected
- S&P Predicts Massive CDO Losses
- Housing Slump Possibly Exceeding That Observed During The Great Depression
- This Time Around, Bondholders May Only Get 10 Cents On The Dollar
- Former Bear Stearns Manager Is The Prime Subprime Suspect
- Schwab Admitting Responsibility For Mis-Marketing Its Yield Plus Fund?
- Wall Street Firms Hid Auction-Rate Securities Market Problems From Public For Months
- Seven Morgan Keegan Funds Get New Manager
- Bear Stearns Probe Abruptly Ended By SEC
- Where Will Citigroup Brokers And Wealthy Clients Go?
- Congress Is Concerned About The Ratings Agencies' Conflicts Of Interest
- The Fed Reports A Weak Economy Coupled With Rising Prices
- March Foreclosures Jump 57% As Housing Woes Increase
- Citigroup Admits That All Types Of Auction-Rate Securities Have Lost Value
- New York Attorney General Launches "Industry" Probe into Auction-Rate Securities
- "Pink Slips" Flood Wall Street
- Companies Targeted In FBI Subprime Mortgage Investigations
- States Expand Probe Into Auction-Rate Securities
- Lehman Uses Securities Backed By Unsold Loans To Borrow From The Fed
- Citibank: Auction Rate Securities Market Will "Cease To Exist"
- "Tranche Warfare" Over CDOs
- U.S. Recession Predicted By Most Experts Increases The Risk Of Mortgage Investments
- Merrill Faces Additional Mortgage Losses
- $331 Billion Auction Rate Market Set to Shrink by $51 Billion
- UBS's Magnus Warns Of Economic Death Spiral
- Ratings For Bond Insurer FGIC Lowered 3 Levels To Just Above Junk
- Money Market Funds Still At Risk
- With Consumer Confidence In The Economy Weakening, How Will The Market Be Impacted?
- MBIA Loses AAA Rating From Fitch
- Morgan Stanley: More of Its Assets Are Hard to Value
- Wall Street May Cut 35% of Jobs
- "Safe" Bond Funds Get the Blues
- At Last, Federal Regulators Probe Misrepresentations Used to Sell Auction-Rate Securities
- The Housing and Mortgage Markets Are Much Worse Than It Appears
- Noted Economist Predicts That Investors Will Lose $1 Trillion in Mortgage-Backed Securities
- Does Broker Compensation Plan Violate State Law?
- Wall Street Firms Abandon Auction Rate Securities Leaving Investors Holding The Bag
- More Subprime Problems Ahead: Home Prices Hit Record Lows Across the U.S.
- SunTrust Sued For Auction Rate Securities
- Problems Ahead For More Subprime Securities
- UBS Admits It Mischaracterized Auction Rate Securities
- Auction Rate Securities:"Liquid Assets" That You Can't Sell
- Auction Rate Securities Update
- $330 Billion Market for Auction Rate Securities Frozen, Yet Brokers Still Get Paid: Regulators Investigate
- Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities Are Losing Value
- Former Bear Stearns Chairman Sells All of His Stock: What Does He Know That We Don't?
- Another Hedge Fund Falters
- Merrill Lynch's Subprime Problems to Continue
- Analyst Expects More Big Subprime Losses for Citigroup
- Schwab Fund Sold as Money Market Drops by Twenty-Two Percent
- Bear Stearns' Collapse Affects Main Street America
- Wall Street Expected to Pare More Jobs as Liquidity Concerns Spread
- Faltering Hedge Funds Threaten Financial Markets
- Credit Default Swaps Pose a Risk to U.S. Bond Funds
- Investors: Beware the "Safety Net" Trap Associated with Equity Indexed Annuities and Variable Annuities
- Bank of America: More Subprime Problems Ahead?
- Bear Stearns Fire Sale Creates a Frenzy in the Financial Markets
- Can Other Firms Avoid Bear Stearns' Fate?
- Investors Bet On Rival Bear Bids
- Subprime Lawsuit Tsunami On The Horizon
- Merrill Lynch And Bond Insurer Fight It Out In Court
- Wall Street Firms Scramble To Raise Cash And Stabilize Operations
- Is Merrill At Risk?
- Bear Stearns' Bailout: The US Is Now Officially On The Road To Becoming "Bailout Nation"
- Will Proposed Changes Provide Any Significant Relief For The Frozen Auction-Rate Securities Market?
- Have Bear Stearns Shareholders Been Shortchanged In The JP Morgan Sale?
- Is Lehman Brothers Next?
- Rocky Days Ahead For Bank And Brokerage Stocks
- Citigroup Drops Another Billion To Bail Out Six Proprietary Hedge Funds
- Investors Are Being Misled About The Real Values Of Their Subprime Securities Holdings
- Has The Fed Lost Its Head? The Federal Reserve Acts To Pass Off Wall Street Losses To The U.S. Taxpayer
- Ambac Credit Rating Saved By $1.5 Billion In Capital
- Home Mortgage Crisis: Disaster Ahead
- Has Bear Stearns Run Out Of Money?
- Banks Work To Keep Money Funds From "Breaking The Buck"
- More Problems Valuing Derivative Securities
- After The Double Bubbles Burst
- Wealth Declines For Homeowners As Home Equity Dips Below 50%
- Foreclosures Reach A Record 1 Million Homes
- UBS: It Just Doesn't Get It
- CDOs And Other Subprime Securities Sold In 2006 And 2007 -- Doomed From The Start?
- Investors Sue UBS Over Misconduct Related To Subprime And Other Credit Market Woes
- Problems Facing Alt-A Mortgage-Backed Securities Pose Latest Threat To Investors
- FINRA Panel Awards Brokerage Executive $3.9 Million in Employment Dispute
- Financially Stressed Consumers Use Credit To Stay Afloat
- Controversy Continues Over Arbitration Study Findings
- NASAA's 2008 Legislative Agenda
- "We're From The Government ... And We're Here To Sell You Long Term Care Insurance"
- Subprime Probes Slowed By Complexity
- International Investor Announces Intent To Sue UBS Over Subprime Losses
- High Interest Payday Lenders Trap Seniors, Veterans And The Disabled
- $286 Million Auction Rate Securities Loss?
- Bond Insurers To Be Split?
- New York's Rescue Plan For Bond Insurers May Cause Additional Subprime Losses
- The Subprime Crisis Strikes Again: Auction-Rate Bond Market Now Vulnerable
- Credit Crunch Causes A Myriad Of Regulatory And Legal Actions
- Allianz Agrees To $10.1 Million Settlement With California Insurance Regulator But Still Faces Class Action Claims
- Bond Insurer FGIC Downgraded Again, Seeks To Split--Litigation Likely To Follow
- Spitzer: Subprime Crisis May Cause A "Tsunami" For U.S. Economy
- Past Due Mortgage Payments On The Rise
- American Equity And Minnesota AG Settle Annuity Lawsuit
- Common Mortgage Scams Target Seniors
- Criminal Probe Of Bear Stearns May Center On Investor Call
- Subprime Investors And Investment Banks Face Billions Of Additional Losses
- Citigroup Bans Investor Withdrawals From Hedge Fund
- Losses In State Street Bond Funds Take Heavy Toll On Pension Plans, Non-Profits and Institutional Accounts
- Four Investment Options To Avoid
- Complex Annuity Products Make Retirement Investing Difficult
- Risky Trading As An Addictive High, Say Researchers
- Spitzer Protege Drives Bond-Insurer Rescue Talks
- SEC Settlement Reached In Hong Kong-Linked Insider Trading Case
- More Bad News For Wall Street -- Federal Prosecutors Investigating Merrill Lynch, UBS And Bear Stearns Over Subprime Securities
- Securities Arbitration Participants Say Process Is Unfair
- S&P Downgrades To Push Losses Over $265 Billion
- Elder Abuses
- CDO Ratings To Fall As Rating Agencies Overhaul Criteria
- Subprime Investments Explode But Many Of Those Responsible Land On Their Feet
- Early Retirement Scams
- UBS Investigated For Improperly Valuing Mortgage Bonds And Related Securities
- Massachusetts Sues Merrill Lynch Over Inappropriate CDO Sales To Municipalities
- Merrill Lynch Acknowledges Impropriety Of Selling Subprime-Backed CDOs To A Municipality
- State Street Blamed For Houston Police Retirement Fund Losses
- UBS AG Reports $11.4 Billion Loss And $14 Billion Write-Down As A Result Of Subprime Meltdown
- Bond Insurers MBIA And Ambac To Incur Predicted Subprime-Related Losses Of $11.6 Billion Each
- Bond Insurer FGIC Misses Deadline And Loses AAA Fitch Rating
- MetLife And Investment Firm BlackRock Sued Over Subprime-Linked Losses
- Home Equity Crisis: Banks That Dodged Subprime Bullet Still Face Loss
- Citigroup/JPMorgan Chase React To The Subprime Crunch
- Is The Market's Doomsday Scenario Here?
- Securities Fraud Class Action Pleading Victory For Plaintiffs
- Wall Street Firms Investigated For Withholding Material Information On Riskiest Subprime Loans
- Subprime Liquidations -- More Chaos Ahead
- Financial Advisors vs. Investment Advisers vs. Brokers: Rand Corporation Study Concludes That Investing Public Sees Them All The Same
- Wall Street Job Cuts Expected
- State Street Corporation Hunkers Down Over Suits For Pension Fund Losses, According to New York Times
- New York Times Reports Settlement of Subprime Case Against Morgan Keegan
- Moody's Downgrades SIVs; Money Market Funds At Risk; SIVs Unable To Meet Debt Obligations Without Selling Assets At Fire-Sale Prices
- Bear Stearns Hit With Eleven New Claims Involving Tanked Funds
- Wall Street: New York Attorney General Subpoenas Firms as Part of Investigation into Subprime Mortgage Debacle
- Freddie Mac Loses $2 Billion in 3Q 2007; More Losses Forecasted; Senator Shumer Worried About Soundness of Federal Home Loan Banking System
- Bear Stearns: Massachusetts Accuses Firm of Fraud in Mortgage-Backed Securities Trades
- Investors Suffer Large Losses in Morgan Keegan Bond Funds
- Why Mortgage-Backed Securities And CDO Problems Are Getting Worse
- Annuity Product Marketers Sidestep No-Call Lists
- More Problems For Ameriprise: The State of New Hampshire Alleges Widespread Fraud
- Merrill Lynch's Subprime Woes Mount
- UBS Financial Services Fined For Failing To Report Customer Complaints, Regulatory Actions and Criminal Disclosures
- Bear Stearns' Hedge Fund Problems Worsen
- AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL, INC. - IS THERE A FIRM-WIDE PROBLEM?
- Recent Developments For Allianz Policyholders
- FINRA Arbitration Panel Awards Broker $1.6 Million For Breach Of Severance Agreement
- Fraudulent 'Free Lunch' Seminars Target Seniors
- Investors Scammed by Forex Traders
- Senate Holds Hearing On Controversial “Certified Senior Advisor” Titles And Allianz Life Insurance’s Annuity Sales Practices
- Alleged Manipulator Charged With Securities Fraud
- Attention AT&T, Verizon, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth Employees and Retirees: Telephone Company Employees Are Targets For Unscrupulous Brokers
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