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 […]

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 […]

Securities Attorney, Lars Soreide, of Soreide Law Group, PLLC, would like all investors to take note of the warnings coming from both FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission this past week. FINRA has warned all investors to watch for structured products that are callable, promise principal protection or have returns […]

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC, through its investment manager, Alliance Capital Management, LP, sold a proprietary hedge fund, called the Multi-Strategy Fixed Income Hedge Fund. The Multi-Strategy Fixed Income Fund was sold by Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC as an alternative to traditional fixed income. Sanford Bernstein stressed that the Multi-strategy Fund would […]

In an article from InvestmentNews.com, on July 25, 2011, Dan Jamieson writes that FINRA has warned investors about chasing yield with structured products, junk bonds and floating-rate bank-loan funds. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued an investor alert about the risks found in these and other products. The alert was prompted by "significant recent inflows" […]

Soreide Law Group, PLLC, is filing claims on behalf of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney clients that were sold Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac preferred stocks in 2007 and 2008.  Despite internal limitations to recommend no more than 10% of an investor's portfolio in preferred stocks, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney investors were sold Fannie Mae and Freddie […]

There are many questions about how Wall Street marketed a very complex product, sold as solid and secure, now emerging in investor arbitration cases. The product is named, incorrectly as it turns out, “100 percent principal protected  notes.” Securities regulators had warned brokerage firms that they should take special care when selling PPN's and other structured products to retail customers […]

WASHINGTON —It was announced July 20, 2011, on FINRA's website that The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has suspended William Bailey, a former NEXT Financial Group, Inc. broker of Mesa, Arizona, from the securities industry for two years for unsuitable and excessive trading of mutual funds and variable annuities. Bailey also engaged in discretionary trading without […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – On The Florida Office of Financial Regulation's website it was announced, July 21, 2011, that The Florida Office of Financial Regulation (OFR) issued a final order on May 26, 2011, against investment adviser James Paul Birmingham (“Birmingham”) (CRD # 222511) and his Broward County companies Birmingham Investments and Birmingham Capital Advisors, LLC for […]