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On December 18, 2018, media reports revealed that Massachusetts’ securities regulators are investigating GPB Capital Holdings, which sold approximately $1.8 million of its private funds. The funds were sold through independent brokerage firms that reportedly received 10% commissions for pushing these funds on investors. These investments, however, were highly speculative […]
Author: Zamansky LLC
A Jacksonville judge may soon decide if CSX shareholders have the right to take the Jacksonville railroad giant’s board of directors to task for its decision to spend $84 million to hire former CEO Hunter Harrison even though he was in poor health and would die eight months later. Three […]
Win or lose, the distressed workers challenging IBM’s handling of its overinflated stock-filled retirement plan have opened a door for others pursuing similar fraud cases. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s recent decision to resuscitate the years-old case of Jander v. Retirement Plans Committee of IBM is […]
Aside from the tensions surrounding the U.S. – China trade war and the recent arrest of a top executive of Huawei Technologies, investors may have a far more ominous issue to contend with in investing in Chinese businesses. U.S. regulators are increasingly worried about getting their hands on the books […]
A Second Circuit panel on Monday gave a proposed class of IBM employees another shot at proving the company improperly invested workers’ retirement savings in overpriced IBM stock, saying a New York federal judge shouldn’t have tossed claims that the alleged actions flouted the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The […]
International Business Machines Cop. workers who accused the company of failing to protect their retirement savings from a 7 percent drop in IBM stock price convinced a federal appeals court to revive their lawsuit. The decision is a rare win for 401(k) investors in a series of Employee Retirement Income […]
No doubt that retail investors’ stomachs are churning from the stock market’s recent gyrations. Now, Mom and Pop investors may also be overcome with indigestion from the flagging corporate bonds in their portfolios. Moody’s Investors Service recently warned that an unprecedented number of corporate credit ratings could be thrown into […]
The law firm is investigating Optionsellers.com, a small commodities firm that failed over the weekend. The firm, which was long WTI, short natural gas, was forced to unwind. President James Cordier issued a full apology video to investors. Zamansky LLC is investigating whether the Optionsellers.com’s risk systems were overwhelmed. If […]
The stock market’s volatility continues to roil and slam retail investors’ portfolios. After last month’s ups and downs, the Dow continued its downward trajectory this week by dropping another 700 points. While many focus on such dramatic plunges, there is a more obscure, almost hidden problem in the financial system: […]
Variable annuities have long been a retirement investment product which Wall Street pushed on Main Street customers to generate fees and commissions, commonly 6% of the amount invested. That means if a client buys a variable annuity from a broker for $100,000, the broker is paid a whopping commission of […]