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Investment Fraud Attorneys for Claims Related to Complex Options Strategies, including the UBS “Yield Enhancement Strategy,” and “Iron Condor” Losses When you invest with a brokerage or advisory firm such as UBS Financial Services, Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, or Morgan Stanley, there is no shortage of investment options available. When […]
Author: Zamansky LLC
In 2008, the subprime mortgage market crashed and led to a severe global recession. History may be repeating itself. The $1.3 trillion leveraged loan market appears ready to threaten the U.S. financial system and investor portfolios. Leveraged loans are made by lending syndicates to speculative companies with junk grade credit. The […]
Once again, Wall Street’s alchemists have concocted an investment product that was sold as safe and secure only to have it blow up in investors’ faces. Certain investment banks, including UBS and Credit Suisse, have cooked up something called a “Yield Enhancement Strategy,” or YES, which is extremely complex […]
Zamansky LLC is investigating Johnson & Johnson Inc. (NYSE: JNJ) (“J&J” or the “Company”) on behalf of its current and former employees for potential violations of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) in the J&J Savings Plan (the “Plan”). We are investigating whether the ERISA fiduciaries violated duties […]
IBM employees appealed dismissal of claims that fiduciaries of IBM’s employee stock option plan violated their duty under ERISA to manage plan assets prudently because they knew, but did not disclose, that IBM’s microelectronics division was overvalued. District court found a prudent fiduciary could have concluded an earlier corrective disclosure would have […]
The participant-plaintiffs in a stock drop case have won a rare victory in federal court. The plaintiffs alleged that the IBM defendants (IBM itself, along with the Retirement Plans Committee of IBM; Richard Carroll, IBM’s Chief Accounting Officer; Martin Schroeter, IBM’s CFO; and Richard Weber, IBM’s general counsel) failed to […]
A federal appeals court in New York ruled against International Business Machines Crop., overturning a lower court dismissal of a lawsuit by IBM 401(k) plan participants, who alleged plan managers violated their fiduciary duties. The three-judge appellate court panel reversed and remanded a September 2017 dismissal by a District Court […]
‘Twas the night before Christmas and rather than St. Nick and sugar plumbs, we got Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and lumps of coal. The Dow dropped a whopping 3 % on Christmas Eve. It hasn’t done that since – ahem – 1918! Following the bruising stock selloff, which erased more than […]
We are investigating legal claims on behalf of investors with accounts at UBS Financial Services Inc. who have suffered losses from investing in any of the firm’s structured notes or GOAL Yield products. UBS has offered a variety of structured products to investors which are designed to seek to generated […]
We are investigating legal claims on behalf of investors who have suffered losses from investing in any “Yield Enhancement Strategy,” or “YES” strategy. A YES strategy is a form of investing where call or put options are sold to enhance returns in relatively stable or flat markets. The YES strategy […]