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As someone who is saving for retirement, working with a broker or investment advisor, or managing your own online brokerage account, there are laws that protect you. These laws regulate the securities markets in the United States and impose legal standards on the companies and individuals that sell stocks and […]
The law firm is investigating legal claims for customers of former Merrill Lynch financial advisor Thomas J. Buck (“Buck”), of Carmel, Indiana. Buck led the Buck Team at Merrill Lynch and was one of the office’s highest producers, with over 3,000 accounts and $1.3 billion in assets under management. On […]
While many victims of investment fraud are ordinary “mom and pop” investors, anyone who invests through a brokerage firm or advisor faces the risk of suffering fraudulent losses. This is true not only for those who invest with small firms operated by scam artists, but for those who invest with […]
While senior investment fraud has long been a major concern, a recent study suggests that senior investors now have even more reason to do their due diligence and carefully monitor their investment portfolios. According to the North American Securities Administrators Association’s (NASAA) Seniors & Financial Exploitation survey published August 2017, […]
Regular readers of this blog know that on Wall Street, greed is considered good. Big banks keep on repeating the mistakes of yesterday. Never mind the often, disastrous consequences that follow. In fact, one of the biggest mistakes, high-risk collateralized debt obligations, CDOs, is once again on the rise after […]
The law firm is investigating sales of Puerto Rico municipal bonds by large U.S. based brokerage firms such as Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley to their brokerage customers. Since 2006, even before Hurricane Maria devastated the Island, Puerto Rico has suffered from a protracted economic recession. The government has incurred […]
“It may not be possible to predict when the next natural disaster will take place. What you can count on is that when it happens, scammers will try to take advantage of the situation.” These words from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) underscore one of the hidden risks associated […]
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has moved to diversify its pool of new arbitrators dealing with investor disputes by increasing the numbers of both African American and women arbitrators in 2016. In December of 2015, FINRA began its minority recruitment for a deeper and more diverse pool of arbitrators […]
Patricia Holtz, lead plaintiff in a Securities Class Action case, is asking the US Supreme Court to reinstate her case against JP Morgan after the bank used SLUSA to justify having the case removed from Illinois State court to federal court. The JP Morgan clients allege the bank violated its […]
A recent article on Forbes.com highlights many of the types of investment scams that target individual investors. While many of these scams target inexperienced investors and individuals who may not have previously been considering investing at all, several recent high-profile cases have shown that even savvy investors who understand the […]