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U.S. securities regulators on Friday called for a new uniform fiduciary standard for broker-dealers and investment advisers that would require them to put retail customers ahead of their own financial interests. The recommendations, laid out by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a study reviewed by Reuters late on Friday, would drastically alter the landscape […]
A FINRA arbitration panel ordered Securities America to pay an investor more than $1.2 million in damages related to losses in promissory notes issued by Medical Capital Holdings Inc., which entered receivership in 2009. The sum included $250,000 in punitive damages. The case, decided on Dec. 31, was the first among dozens of arbitration cases […]
Not so fast, J.R. Larry Hagman, who played the rapacious oil tycoon J.R. Ewing in the 1980s hit TV series “Dallas,” recently won $11.6 million in a securities arbitration case against Citigroup. As DealBook reported last month, it was the largest arbitration award an individual investor received this year and the ninth largest award ever, […]
The firm announces a notice of an investigation on behalf of investors who purchased Bank of America structured products, which were represented as protecting principal. The investments the firm is investigating include: Bank of America (Basket EAGLES) Equity Appreciation Growth Linked Securities Bank of America Return Linked Notes Bank of America CYCLES (Capital Protected Equity […]
Many people on Wall Street were surprised when an arbitration panel awarded Larry Hagman, who played the rapacious oil baron J.R. Ewing in the 1980s hit series “Dallas,” won $11.6 million in a securities arbitration case against Citigroup. His broker, Lisa Detanna, was also surprised. She recently sent a letter about the case to hundreds […]