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Whether it is your New Year’s resolution to start investing or you are hoping to grow your existing portfolio in 2021, it is important to make sure that you invest safely. With this in mind, here are five tips from our investment fraud attorneys for individuals who are planning to […]
Author: Zamansky LLC
As we close the books on a year unlike any other, there is at least some cause for optimism in 2021. But, for investors, the lessons learned in 2020 should serve as warnings that it is more important now than ever to be wary of the risk of investment fraud. […]
When you invest in the stock market, you know there is a possibility that you could lose your principal. But, you expect any losses to result from market factors, not from fraud. Unfortunately, fraud is a very real concern for individual investors; and, in many cases, investors can seek to […]
The UBS YES strategy was like so many investment opportunities that appear too good to be true. While it promised stable returns and little risk—at least as portrayed by UBS—in the end, investors were left facing substantial losses and wondering where it all went wrong. How and Why the UBS […]
The UBS YES strategy was supposed to be a boon for wealthy investors. The brokerage firm touted its “yield enhancement strategy” as a way for its customers to earn reliable income with relatively low risk. As UBS explained the strategy in its sales pitches and marketing materials, it offered a […]
If you are like many of the wealthy individuals who invested in UBS’ yield enhancement strategy (YES), your investment in the strategy yielded substantial losses. The market plunge at the end of 2018 came first, and then the COVID-19 pandemic crashed the securities market again in 2020. In between, various […]
It has been almost two years since the first warning flags about UBS’s yield enhancement strategy (YES) went up. In the time since, we have filed claims on behalf of many aggrieved investors, and unfortunately, many more investors have experienced substantial losses. If you have suffered losses with the UBS […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently filed charges against a Florida attorney and a disbarred New York attorney who are accused of engaging in an investment fraud scam from December 2015 through July 2018. According to an SEC press release, the current and former attorneys, Thomas Craft and […]
On November 9, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari (which, in layman’s terms, is simply a formal request to review a lower court’s ruling) in the case of Retirement Plans Committee of IBM v. Jander. At issue were the following: 1. Whether Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer’s “more […]
BY NEVIN E. ADAMS, JD NOVEMBER 10, 2020 FIDUCIARY RULES AND PRACTICES Those who had hoped for some clarity—or perhaps a shift—in the standards involving where, and how, to draw the line between the obligations of corporate officials and ERISA plan fiduciaries—well, the Supreme Court has decided (again) not to […]