New York Stockbroker is Named in Multiple Customer Disputes If you suffered substantial losses from investments recommended to you by Spartan Capital Securities broker Joseph Kelly, you may have grounds for filing a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration claim to recover your losses. Kelly, who is based in New…
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Royal Alliance, Securities America, & Other Firms To Pay $3M for Allegedly Unsuitable iPath S&P 500 VIX Short–Term Futures ETN & Other ETP Sales
Retail Investors Were Allegedly Told To Hold Exchange-Traded Products for Too Long In separate settlements reached with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Royal Alliance Associates, Securities America Advisors, Summit Financial Group, Benjamin F. Edwards & Co., and American Portfolio Financial Services / American Portfolio Advisers will pay over…
Hannes Financial Services’ Ronald Hannes Allegedly Defrauded Woodbury Financial Customers
Banned Woodbury Financial Broker Allegedly Sold Fake Investments, Converted Client Monies Ronald Walter Hannes, a Spokane, Washington-based investment advisor and former Woodbury Financial Services broker, is accused by the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions of defrauding 19 clients of over $2.9M. Hannes had operated out of Hannes Financial Services…
Not All Resource Real Estate Opportunity REIT Investors May Have Been Apprised of Risks
Resource Real Estate Opportunity REIT and REIT II Shares Reportedly Trading Under NAV Price With shares in Resource Real Estate Opportunity REIT and Resource Real Estate Opportunity REIT II reportedly trading privately at lower prices than their net asset value (NAV), some investors may be wondering why they were never…
Sierra Income Investors are Losing Money
Risky, Illiquid Business Development Company Was Not Suitable for Many Investors If you are someone who invested in the Sierra Income Corporation, you may have lost money. This business development company (BDC) is a non-traded investment. Earlier this year, Sierra Income suffered losses after its announced merger with Medley Capital…
Global Investment Advisory Services’ Felipe Vargas is Named in Customer’s $1.3M Barclays Bank iPath Series B S & P 500 Short Term Futures ETN Claim
Investor Contends Insigneo Securities Broker Unsuitably Handled Account A former customer of Felipe Henao Vargas, an Insigneo Securities stockbroker, is pursuing a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration claim against the brokerage firm for $1.3M in damages related to the iPath Series B S & P 500 Short Term Futures…
Chinese Tycoon Sues UBS for $500M Over Losses Involving Margin Loan
High Net Worth Individual Investor Alleges That UBS Group AG Persuaded Him To Buy On Margin Guo Wengui, a rich Chinese businessman exiled in New York, has filed a lawsuit against UBS Financial Group after losing $500M. Wengui contends that the bank pressured him into borrowing funds to invest in…
Customers of Peregrine Private Capital’s Robert Smith File GPB Investment Fraud Claims
Ex-Concorde Investment Services Broker Allegedly Made Negligent Recommendations Robert Scott Smith, the President of Peregrine Private Capital in Newberg, Oregon, and a former Concorde Investment Services, is named in multiple Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration claims by former customers that invested in GPB private placement funds at his recommendation. …
UBS YES Strategy Customers of Broker Eric Wittenberg Are Seeking at Least $1.8M in Damages
New York Stockbroker and Investment Advisor is Accused of Misrepresentations and Unsuitability Eric Andrew Wittenberg, a managing director and private wealth advisor at UBS Group AG (UBS) in the New York metropolitan area, is being blamed by a number of the firm’s customers for investment losses they suffered after he…
UBS Recommended Noble Stock to Customers Until Company’s Bankruptcy
Investors May Have Been Subject to Unsuitable Recommendations & Misrepresentations If you are a UBS customer whose broker persuaded you to invest in Noble Corporation, you likely have lost money. The offshore drilling company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on July 31 in Houston, Texas. Noble Corp. took a…