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July 10, 2009
Two Ohio families and their pastor filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis this week accusing some “confusingly intertwined” Twin Cities investment advisers and a dozen business entities of fraud, misrepresentation and other breaches in the handling of their life savings. The eight plaintiffs claimed Trevor Cook, 37, of Burnsville and Gerald Durand, 58, of Lakeville […]
July 9, 2009
The recipients of billions of dollars in IOUs being issued by California soon may have a regulated market where they could sell them. IOUs May Be Municipal Securities Some of the nation’s largest banks say that, starting Friday, they will no longer accept the IOUs. The banks want to pressure the state to end its […]
June 24, 2009
Mark Rufo said he thought he had found a “good conservative investment” for his 88-year-old mother when, in 2007, he put $26,000 of her money with UBS Financial Services in Concord. The Nashua lawyer bought Asian Currency Basket Principal Protected Notes. Asian currencies appeared stable at the time, especially compared with the debacle of a […]
June 23, 2009
Bernard Madoff’s lawyer has told a judge scheduled to sentence the disgraced financier next week that 12 years in prison will be sufficient punishment for the man who swindled tens of billions of investor’s dollars in one of history’s biggest frauds. Attorney Ira Sorkin also said in court papers made public Tuesday that his 71-year-old […]
June 22, 2009
Investment advisers and consumer advocates have applauded President Obama’s proposal to establish a fiduciary duty for broker-dealers offering investment advice. Diahann Lassus, chairwoman of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors in Arlington Heights, Ill., stated, “We think it’s great. There should be a fiduciary standard for all advisers.” This sentiment echoes the growing recognition […]