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April 22, 2016
Investors Check Out Your Financial Advisor BEFORE You Invest

The Securities and Exchange Commission is running a new ad campaign targeting seniors encouraging them to look up their financial advisor before they invest. Unfortunately, more often than not the check up on the broker happens after money is already invested or even worse lost. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority or “FINRA” has also marketed […]

February 12, 2013
DID YOU PURCHASE THESE REITS?

Last week LPL Financial Holdings agreed to pay $2.5 million in fines and restitution for improperly supervising brokers who sold non-traded real estate investment trusts. (Please note that LPL neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing.) These non-traded REITs are high-yielding and very popular. These non-traded REITs have jumped about 50% since 2009, to $65 billion. They […]

February 11, 2013
FINRA Filings from Conservative Investors Who Were Sold Complex Products is on the Rise

Financial regulators are confronting investor frauds that are giving retirement savers steep losses on complex products that until a few years ago were aimed only at the most sophisticated investors, writes Nathaniel Popper in a New York Times article from Feb. 11, 2013. These victims are among the millions of Americans whose mutual funds and […]

February 8, 2013
Crystallex International Corporation (“CRYXF”)

Crystallex has commenced a proceeding under chapter 15 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in order to ensure that relevant CCAA orders are enforced in the United States. Many stock brokers recommended CRYXF to their clients as an undervalued mining company that is poised […]

February 8, 2013
FBI, SEC and FINRA Investigating Tommy Belesis' Firm, John Thomas Financial

In an article, Feb. 7, 2013, in the New York Post, it was reported that (broker-dealer owner), Anastasios “Tommy” Belesis' firm, John Thomas Financial, is being investigated by the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. (FINRA). Mr. Belesis has made many media appearances on cable business/financial shows. […]

February 7, 2013
LPL Financial Ordered to Pay $2 mill Over Sales of Non-Traded REITs

On Feb. 6th., 2013, LPL Financial, LLC, was ordered by Massachusetts Security Division to pay restitution of more than $2 million to investors who bought shares of nontraded real estate investment trusts (REITs) and a $500,000 administrative fine, which involved investors who bought shares of several different nontraded REITs in violation of state limitations, and […]

February 5, 2013
FINRA Backtracks on Plan to End 5% Markup Rule. Investors Check Your Order Tickets.

In a FINRA NTM 13-07 posted last Thursday on its website, FINRA asked for comment on an updated proposal that would keep the 5% guideline in place. The action follows complaints about an earlier proposal to eliminate the 5% rule for markups and markdowns. In other words, any FINRA broker/dealer can make up to 5% […]

February 4, 2013
ATTENTION UBS BOND INVESTORS

Those investors who believed they had constructed a “conservative” portfolio by being heavily invested in bonds could be reclassified as “aggressive." Some also believe the move may be an attempt by the firm to lessen its liability in the event clients who are holding large positions in bonds decide to take legal action against UBS. […]

January 31, 2013
Tenant-in-Common (TIC)

Tenant in Common (TIC) investments, or 1031 exchanges, are a form of real estate ownership in which multiple investors own fractional interests in a property. Many brokers and brokerage firms sold billions of these products to investors across the country allegedly charging high fees, and doing little or no due diligence. They were investments with […]

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