Zamansky LLC has filed a FINRA arbitration against Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (“Citigroup”) on behalf of a 91 year-old investor from Detroit, Michigan who was sold a speculative investment strategy which included structured products called equity-linked securities or “ELKs”. The case is FINRA No. TN 1300930. Zamansky LLC has filed […]
The Mad Doctors of Wall Street are once again in their labs, conjuring up freaky new investment products to dump on unsuspecting retail clients. Such products, commonly known as alternative investments, promise alluring yields. But they also carry hidden risks that – poof! – can result in the products to […]
The utter lack of ethics across much of Wall Street that caused the 2008 financial crisis and crippled the U.S. economy still exists, and in worrying proportions, according to a startling recent report of industry insiders that focuses on Wall Street ethics and conduct. The report confirms what many of […]
Zamansky LLC announces that brokerage customers of UBS Financial Services Inc. (“UBS”) who purchased Lehman structured products, called “100% Principal Protected Notes”, “Auto-Callable Notes”, “Return Optimization Notes” or other name, have the right to opt out of the class action settlement. UBS brokerage customers who invested in Lehman structured products […]
The now famous Rolling Stone magazine article in 2009 by Matt Taibbi unforgettably referred to Goldman Sachs, the world’s most powerful investment bank, as a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” At the time, Taibbi was […]
The Feds have opened their substantial arsenal this week to take down Steve Cohen, the Biggest Fish on Wall Street, and a minnow, Fabulous Fab, or Fabrice Tourre, the former Goldman Sachs executive who allegedly defrauded investors in a complex mortgage bond called Abacus. Both cases signal that the government […]
It should be pretty darn hot in hedge fund Steve “King” Cohen’s $60 million East Hampton beachfront estate for the rest of the summer as he huddles with his lawyers to plot his defense to the SEC’s allegations that he failed to supervise employees at SAC Capital Advisors who engaged […]
Zamansky LLC has filed a FINRA arbitration on behalf of a group of 30 or more Canadian investors who were the victims of an alleged fraud. The case is FINRA No. 13-582. Zamansky LLC has filed a FINRA arbitration on behalf of a group of 30 or more Canadian investors […]
Zamansky LLC is investigating the UBS Carlyle Fund I, LLC and UBS Carlyle Fund II, LLC (“UBS Carlyle”), private investment funds sold by UBS Financial Services Inc. (“UBS Financial Services”) and its financial advisors to the firm’s brokerage customers. According to filings with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (“SEC”), […]
This blog said last month that the Feds needed to put Hedge Fund King Steve Cohen behind bars. Now, it looks like the Justice Department lacks the stomach for such a fight and has decided to give SAC Capital and Cohen a free pass. Yes, SAC in March agreed to […]