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Arbitration Makes Flood of Brokerage Claims Unlikely

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 […]

Bitter Investors Want Brokers To Pay

Kansas City Star

Barbara Kreimer, 75, had planned for her investments not only to provide for her growing health-care needs but also to leave a tidy sum to support her mentally impaired adult son after she died. So when her health began failing last fall, she considered tapping into her investments. But she was stunned to learn from […]

Investors Win Small in Analyst Dispute

Los Angeles Times

Investors who were seeking $1.75 million in compensatory damages against Goldman Sachs Group and one of its stock analysts have been awarded a fraction of what they sought, a possible setback to investors who might expect large awards in the growing number of cases against analysts. In a decision released Thursday, an arbitration panel awarded […]

Investor Anthony Schultz Files For Arbitration Against Salomon Smith Barney, Inc.

PR Newswire

Anthony Schultz, a thirteen year employee of CISCO Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO – news) filed an arbitration with the National Association of Securities Dealers against Salomon Smith Barney, Inc, a unit of Citgroup, Inc. (NYSE: C – news) alleging that his broker failed to inform him of the availability of hedging strategies to protect his […]

NetTrends: How risky margin trading cost small investors

Reuters

At the beginning of this year, he was a security guard working in a Silicon Valley office building, earning a modest living and keeping all his money in the bank. But he was intrigued by the software engineers in the office who boasted about their stock options and tracked their wealth on a stock quote […]