In a January 19th., 2012, article for InvestmentNews.com, Jeff Benjamin writes that when pressed, it seems financial intermediaries will tend to overstate their qualifications and services, according to Cerulli Associates Inc. “Most advisers don't want to say that they don't offer some kind of service, so they are more likely to overstate their capabilities,” said Scott […]

Exposure to the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) has been available since 2004 in the form of futures, and since 2006 in the form of options, but recently new exchange-traded products have offered retail investors an easier way to gain exposure to this popular measure of market sentiment. The most successful of these products so far […]

Soreide Law Group, PLLC, is currently investigating the following oil and gas deals: KBS REIT, DBSI, BDA Bradford Drilling, United Development Fund, Leaf Equipment Leasing Fund, Cypress Equipment Fund, Net REIT, REEF Income and Development Fund, and Waveland Drilling Partners. Investors can file arbitration claims, as an option if they have been victimized by these products, if the investments were recommended […]

 Soreide Law Group, PLLC, is currently investigating the following TIC/DST Offerings. If your stock broker or financial advisor recommended any of the following investments, and you sustained a significant loss of your investment. call 888-760-6552 for a free consultation. TIC/DST Offerings - ArciTerra Strategic Retail - Park Lee Bluerock Mesa Ridge Apartments DST PASSCO - […]

Recently, start-up fund, Roundstone Healthcare Partners, and its affiliates, have filed a RICO suit against numerous defendants in "GREENFISH II, L.P. et al v. INTERNATIONAL PORTFOLIO, INC. et al," which alleges that Roundstone and their affiliates were sold portfolios of medical receivables at artificially inflated values with no real ability to resell. Roundstone then, through stock […]

William D. Cohan, a former investment banker and author, for the Bloomberg View, recently wrote that there has been a fair amount written recently about various institutional cartels that are thriving in the U.S. despite antitrust laws designed to prevent their existence. Unbeknownst to the millions of people who interact with Wall Street every day […]

Soreide Law Group, PLLC,  is currently investigating the following investments. If your stock broker or financial advisor recommended any of the following investments, and you sustained a significant loss of your investment, call 888-760-6552 for a free consultation.  AgraShares Fund III, LLC Americap Distressed Real Estate Fund I Avere Medical Real Estate Fund I, LP […]

Elevation, LLC (CRD #140341, Charlotte, North Carolina)   submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent in which the firm was censured and fined $10,000.   Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the described sanctions and to the entry of findings that it commenced an options business, engaged in options transactions […]

Joseph Alphonse Vitale (CRD #5223467, Registered Representative, Boca Raton, Florida)   has been barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. The sanction was based on findings that Vitale failed to respond to FINRA requests for information.   (FINRA Case #2009017585202)   This information is from FINRA’s website’s Disciplinary Actions, December, 2011.   […]