{"id":18225,"date":"2019-08-31T11:44:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=18225"},"modified":"2019-09-06T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:46:10","slug":"ubs-yes-strategy-investors-file-fraud-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/ubs-yes-strategy-investors-file-fraud-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"UBS Yes Strategy Investors File Fraud Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clients of UBS Group AG (UBS) who employed the firm\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?s=ubs+yield+enhancement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yield Enhancement Strategy (YES) <\/a>are now filing investor fraud complaints after suffering at least $60M in losses to date. YES involves options trades and borrowing that was supposed to be \u201csafe\u201d and low risk while earning investors positive returns.<\/p>\n<p>The complex investment strategy did just that while the market was stable but the volatility that ensued last year&#8211;the worst to hit the market in 30 years&#8211; caught investors by surprise. The <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em> reports investor losses of over 13% in one month alone. However, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seeking Alpha <\/a><\/em>reports that losses have been as high as 20% for some investors.<\/p>\n<p>For example, according to the <em>WSJ<\/em>, Sherrie Pellini, a 60-year-old UBS customer who financially supports her mom and three kids, invested $3M in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?s=ubs+yield+enhancement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UBS YES Strategy<\/a>\u00a0and was charged 1.75%. She now claims her losses were $750K. Pellini is accusing UBS broker Robert Perlman of telling her that YES had not resulted in any losses for 17 years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/ubs-yes-strategy-investors-file-fraud-claims\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading UBS Yes Strategy Investors File Fraud Claims\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clients of UBS Group AG (UBS) who employed the firm\u2019s Yield Enhancement Strategy (YES) are now filing investor fraud complaints after suffering at least $60M in losses to date. YES involves options trades and borrowing that was supposed to be \u201csafe\u201d and low risk while earning investors positive returns. The complex investment strategy did just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773,3762,3785],"tags":[4163,4164,3352],"class_list":["post-18225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broker-fraud","category-current-investigations","category-yield-enhancement-strategy","tag-ubs-group-ag","tag-yes","tag-yield-enhancement-strategy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UBS Yes Strategy Investors File Fraud Claims | SSEK Law Firm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Clients of UBS Group AG who employed the firm\u2019s Yield Enhancement Strategy are now filing investor fraud complaints after suffering at least $60M in losses.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/ubs-yes-strategy-investors-file-fraud-claims\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"UBS Yes Strategy Investors File Fraud Claims | SSEK Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Clients of UBS Group AG who employed the firm\u2019s Yield Enhancement Strategy are now filing investor fraud complaints after suffering at least $60M in losses.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shepherd Smith Edwards &amp; 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