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Dec. 19, 2008 was when the settlement offer forcing UBS to repurchase auction-rate securities that it sold to investors prior to the collapse of the ARS market in February 2008 officially expired. For investors who did not participate in the repurchase program, there are still some options available, however. They can continue to hold the […]
On September 15, 2008 Lehman Brothers Holdings filed for bankruptcy protection, leavinf investors who previously purchased the company’s 100% Principal Protection Notes (PPNs) unprotected and at a loss. Funnily enough it was Lehman’s own marketing brochures that touted the notes as providing “100 percent principal protection.” Little did they realize that the value of the […]
In what could become just the tip of a legal iceberg for UBS, Lehman Brothers and others over sales of Lehman Principal Protection Notes, a class-action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Among the claims that the plaintiff, Stephen P. Gott, alleges: UBS, Lehman […]
It seems as though another legal battle with investors in the works for Swiss-based investment bank UBS AG – this time over sales of Lehman Brothers Principal Protected Notes, which are now deemed essentially worthless. Structured notes are financial instruments that combine derivatives – including a single security, a pool of securities, options, indices, commodities, […]
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) will launch a two-year pilot program later this fall that will allow some investors making arbitration claims to choose a panel made up of three public arbitrators instead of two public arbitrators and one non-public arbitrator, as is currently the norm. Six firms – Merrill Lynch, Citigroup Global Markets, […]