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Now It’s Fraud

New York Post

Regulators will find that some of Wall Street’s biggest firms committed fraud by issuing bogus research, in a development that has plaintiffs lawyers for burned investors salivating. While regulators won’t use the term “fraud” against most firms, some, including Citigroup’s Salomon Smith Barney and Credit Suisse First Boston, may be tagged with it, sources said. […]

Stop Loss Discipline Fails Stock Brokerage: Arbitration Panel Awards Two Merrill Lynch Clients

The Daily Journal

When the stock market tanked three years ago, a lot of investors lost their shirts. Some brokerage houses blamed market forces for their customers’ shrunken portfolios. Merrill Lynch took that position after two of its clients, brothers Aleks and Michel Horvat, lost more than $2 million over an eight-month period in 2000. The brothers subsequently […]

DJ Merrill Loses $2M to Two It Says Copied Film Exec Picks

Dow Jones Newswires

Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER) lost $2.14 million in an arbitration case to two Los Angeles brothers who the firm claims tried to mirror the trading strategies of Hollywood director Michael Bay. The brothers, Aleks and Michel Horvat, accused the firm of churning their accounts and placing them in unsuitable stocks, including Broadcom Corp. (BRCM) […]

Merrill Lynch Ordered to Pay $2.1 Million in Arbitration

PR Newswire

An NASD arbitration panel ordered Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER-news) to pay two former customers more than $2.1 million stemming from the company’s sale to them of unsuitable securities, excessive trading of their accounts and failure to supervise. Brothers Alex and Michel Horvat alleged that Win Troung, a broker in the Merrill Lynch Beverly Hills office, […]

Can You Afford To Trust Your Stockbroker?

NBC4.TV

LOS ANGELES — Marilyn and Dean Aspinal of Orange County are having a financial crisis after losing nearly a quarter of a million dollars in the stock market. They claim their stockbroker recommended investments inappropriate for people about to retire. “He said, ‘I’m going to put you in some technology stocks. We’re going to make […]