{"id":2025,"date":"2018-01-18T19:31:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T01:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.institutionalinvestorsecuritiesblog.com\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2022-03-22T15:20:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:20:42","slug":"investors-continue-go-goldman-sachs-wake-abacus-cdo-related-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/investors-continue-go-goldman-sachs-wake-abacus-cdo-related-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors Continue to Go After Goldman Sachs in the Wake of Abacus CDO-Related Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan has decided that the shareholder lawsuit brought against Goldman Sachs (GS) for its high-risk subprime securities leading up to the 2008 financial crisis cannot move forward as a class action securities fraud case. The court said that a lower court judge had put too much of a burden on the bank by mandating that it prove that the misleading statements and conflicts of interest alleged by the plaintiffs did not affect its stock price. Shareholders, however, are allowed to pursue shareholders class certification again.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs contend that between 2007 and the middle of 2010, they lost over $13B because the Wall Street bank was not forthcoming about being able to deal with certain conflicts. They accused Goldman Sachs of hiding short positions made in a number of subprime mortgage collateralized debt obligations, including the:<\/p>\n