Zamansky, LLC: Protecting Clients with Yield Enhancement Strategy Losses Investors and those who follow financial news may have become aware of the increase in lawsuits forming against UBS, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and other brokerage and advisory firms. Backlash against these companies is escalating due to the sale of yield […]
Note: This blog post was also posted in Seeking Alpha on 8/12/19. The market is bouncing wildly, and that should make Mom and Pop investors pause and take note. The S&P 500 hit new highs in mid-July, reaching 3,000. Then on Monday, it had its worst day of the year, […]
Riot Blockchain, a publicly-traded Bitcoin and Litecoin mining company previously known as Bioptix, recently announced that its auditors had found “material weaknesses” in the company’s internal controls for financial reporting. The cryptocurrency company, which reported holding more than $41.6 million in cash at the end of 2017, also reported that […]
As cryptocurrency trading continues to grow in popularity among casual investors, and as new initial coin offerings (including fraudulent initial coin offerings) become increasingly common, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is warning investors to be wary of the risk of cryptocurrency scams. In a recent Investor Alert, the SEC […]
Imagine your financial adviser selling you a bond fund that you thought was invested in low risk index or municipal securities only to find out that much of your holdings are in high-risk Chinese or Puerto Rico bonds. Unfortunately, that is the situation facing investors who may have unwittingly bought […]
As a shareholder in a publicly-traded or privately-held corporation, your top priority should be protecting your investment. The value of your shares is directly related to the corporation’s profitability, and you need to feel confident that the people who are in control of the company (its officers, directors and majority […]
Zamansky LLC attorney James Ostaszewski, who also serves on the New York City Bar Association’s Task Force on Puerto Rico, recently conducted an interview with New York City Bar President Roger Juan Maldonado and New York State Bar President Michael Miller, regarding a report that the bar associations jointly issued […]
When you started saving for your children’s college tuition with a 529 savings plan, you probably did not give much thought to the risk of investment fraud. As a tax-advantaged investment tool that is sponsored by states across the country, you, like most people, probably assumed that the worst-case scenario […]
A shady deal in 2017 between Wall Street behemoth Blackstone and Hovnanian Enterprises, a leading homebuilder, has shaken investor confidence in the markets. These “manufactured defaults” occur when an otherwise solvent company deliberately defaults on its debt. Powerful investment firms are making big money by encouraging companies to miss bond […]
Financial advisors pitched the so-called “UBS Yield Enhancement Strategy” – or YES strategy – to their mostly ultra-high net worth customers. They sold it as a supposedly safe and efficient mechanism to enhance yield from generally conservative portfolios. Wealthy investors were told that the YES strategy was a neutral or […]