Bruce Kelly writes in a Sept. 13th, 2011, article in InvestmentNews.com that a broker-dealer who sold millions of dollars of failed private placements reached a $200,000 settlement with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. last month, with the money going to the investors. In a Finra letter of acceptance, waiver and consent, Capital Financial Services Inc. of Minot, […]

In an article from InvestmentNews.com, Bruce Kelly writes that after avoiding the pitfalls of disastrous Regulation D deals during the past decade, Commonwealth Financial Network and LPL Financial LLC, are contending with potential fallout from a real estate private placement that faces pressure from its creditors. The financial advisers from both Commonwealth and LPL sold the […]

In a report from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission's website, it was announced on August 10, 2011, the SEC charged Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., a St. Louis-based broker-dealer, and former Stifel Senior Vice President David W. Noack with defrauding five Wisconsin school districts by selling them unsuitably risky and complex investments funded largely […]

 Josh Funk, a business writer for the AP wrote that  TD Ameritrade has agreed to a $10 million settlement for failing to properly supervise representatives who misled investors about the safety of a money-market mutual fund that "broke the buck" in 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission said. Funk writes that TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. customers who still hold […]

In an article from InvestmentNews.com, Mark Schoeff Jr., writes that broker-dealers have been engaging in sales practices for structured securities products that hurt retail investors, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) report released in July. The article goes on to say that in an examinations of 11 broker-dealers, the SEC found that the firms […]

Securities attorney, Lars Soreide, of Soreide Law Group, PLLC, is currently investigating the Dendreon Corp. (NASDAQ: DNDN) for possible violations of federal securities laws after the company’s withdrawal of its sales forecasts for its prostate cancer therapy Provenge. Dendreon projected that it would earn between $350 - $400 million on sales of Provenge. The Dendreon Corporation is […]

In an August 4, 2011, article by Bruce Kelly for InvestmentNews.com he writes that after avoiding the pitfalls of disastrous Regulation D deals during the past decade, Commonwealth Financial Network and LPL Financial, LLC, are contending with potential fallout from a real estate private placement that faces pressure from its creditors. Kelley writes that financial advisers […]

Back in April of 2007, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued a hedge fund, Lydia Capital LLC (Lydia), in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts alleging fraud against investors in life insurance policies purchased by Lydia. SEC v. Lydia Capital LLC, No. 1:07-CV-10712, (D. Mass. Apr. 12, 2007). granting in part a motion by the SEC, […]

There have been claims filed with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) against the NNN Capital Opportunity Fund, LLC, in connection with the sale of defective financial products. Subject to review it appears to have retained its value well during the financial crisis, then imploded thereafter. Many of these products are manufactured for retail sale to the investment public with […]