November 25, 2001
New York Times
Dan Colarusso
In a television commercial, a client of Ameritrade (news/quote), the online brokerage firm, boasts to a co-worker that he paid 5 cents less a share for a stock they bought at the same time. Datek Online, a competitor, is advertising what it describes as its unparalleled speed. Even the New York Stock Exchange is telling […]
October 13, 2001
The Spokesman-Review.com
Investors cry foul as money vanishesYour money: Record wave of stock traders taking brokers to arbitrationDeborah Lohse – Knight Ridder Denise Day knew she needed help managing $1.4 million in cash and stock options she received in her divorce. So, like many investors, she turned to a broker for advice. Just over a year later, […]
October 1, 2001
Money Magazine
WHEN OVERZEALOUS BROKERS MET NEWLY MINTED INVESTORS IN THE LONG BULL MARKET, FORTUNES WERE MADE AND LOST IN AN INSTANT. NOW EVERYONE’S POINTING FINGERS OVER THE MISSING MONEY. Since stocks peaked in March of last year, investors in the U.S. market have lost $4 trillion in paper wealth. That’s an awful lot of money, and […]
September 11, 2001
San Jose Mercury News
Denise Day knew she needed help managing $1.4 million in cash and stock options she received in her divorce. So, like many investors, she turned to a broker for advice. Just over a year later, she’s filed to take her broker to arbitration, alleging she lost almost everything when he handled her investments more aggressively […]
August 20, 2001
Los Angeles Business Journal
The recent conclusion of a couple of high profile arbitration cases raises the question: Will Wall Street be inundated with investor arbitration claims contending that brokerage analysts did them wrong? Will investors en masse charge that stockbrokers, following the recommendations of brokerage analysts, herded them into lousy stocks, benefiting not the investor but the brokerage’s […]