As it's prepares to go private with a sale to private-equity buyers, insurance broker and benefits roll-up firm National Financial Partners Corp. is facing hurdles created by its independent broker-dealer, NFP Advisor Services Group, writes Bruce Kelly in a recent article in InvestmentNews. There is a problem with the potential costly legal fallout from NFP […]

A Minnesota attorney and two San Francisco-area hedge fund promoters defrauded investors of more than $21 million by concealing the financial collapse of the fund's only borrower. The individuals raised more than $21 million from investors in the Capital Solutions Monthly Income Fund after the fund's sole business partner, Hennessy Financial, defaulted in May 2008, […]