May 1, 2002
New York Times
Patrick McGeehan
A rare public apology from the chairman of Merrill Lynch & Company has not managed to defuse the anger of investors large and small over the conflicts of interest that they contend colored the advice of Merrill’s stock analysts. David H. Komansky, Merrill’s chairman and chief executive, apologized at the firm’s annual meeting on Friday […]
April 25, 2002
PR Newswire
A National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) arbitration panel found liable and ordered Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER – news) to pay Patricia McNamara a total of $192,000 for the company’s breach of fiduciary duty and failure to supervise registered representative Robert Morgart in its Sante Fe, New Mexico office. In her claim, Patricia McNamara, a […]
March 5, 2002
Associated Press
A securities lawyer is facing off against the National Association of Securities Dealers, the brokerage industry’s self-regulatory group, over his plan to publish a directory of firms that would list disciplinary actions against them. The information already is available from the NASD’s Web site, but users can access the data only one firm at a […]
February 16, 2002
Wall Street Journal
I recently spent some 18 months sifting through the wreckage of a massive securities fraud. What I found was every investor’s scariest nightmare. Masquerading as a brilliant stock trader, Martin Frankel stole over $200 million, first from individual investors in Ohio, Florida and Texas and then from a chain of southern insurance companies he bought […]
February 4, 2002
PR Newswire
The Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA), a nationwide bar organization of attorneys dedicated to the representation of individual investors in disputes with the securities industry, today announced its support for the Pension Protection and Diversification Act of 2001. The danger of over concentrating employee 401(k) plan assets in the stock of the employee’s company […]