Posts belonging to Category Ameriprise
Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 4, 2010
The Wall Street Journal reports that “hundreds of businesses are fighting to recover billions of dollars tied up in frozen auction-rates securities, a year after Wall Street firms agreed to $60 billion in settlements over the collapsed market for the investments.” See “Firms Fight Banks Over Billions in Frozen Notes,” WSJ 1/2/10. While regulators stepped […]
Categories: Ameriprise, Auction Rate Securities, Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Investment Advisers, J. P. Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Oppenheimer, Raymond James, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, SunTrust, UBS, Wachovia, Wells Fargo
Posted by Page PerryonOctober 28, 2009
InvestmentNews reported on October 25 that Ameriprise Financial Services reached a settlement with Massachusetts over accusations of deceptive sales practices. The $200,000 settlement centers on the Ameriprise’s failure to supervise their financial representatives, allowing them to charge fees for financial plans that were never delivered to clients. In addition, the reps failed to disclose the […]
Categories: Ameriprise, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Investment Advisers, Regulatory Developments, Securities/Commodities Arbitration
Posted by Page PerryonAugust 4, 2009
In her recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Eleanor Laise reports that sales of Leveraged and Inverse Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have exploded to $32.8 billion as of June 2009, almost tripling the $11 billion held at the start of 2008. The number of such ETFs has increased to 119, an increase of 86%, […]
Categories: Ameriprise, Brokerage Firms, Charles Schwab, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Derivatives, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Investment Advisers, LPL Financial, Morgan Stanley, Regulatory Developments, Smart Investing Tools, UBS
Posted by Page PerryonJuly 29, 2009
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, an important Wall Street lobbying group, has decided to support the Obama administration’s proposal to hold brokers to the same standard as a fiduciary when they provide investment advice, according to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal. While investors who sue their brokers have long argued, […]
Categories: Ameriprise, Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Brokerage Firms, Charles Schwab, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Investment Advisers, J. P. Morgan Chase, Legg Mason, Lehman Brothers, LPL Financial, Market Developments, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Oppenheimer, Raymond James, RBC Dain Raucher, Regulatory Developments, SunTrust, UBS, Wachovia, Wells Fargo
Posted by Page PerryonJuly 14, 2009
Ameriprise Financial Services has agreed to pay over $17 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it sold investments without disclosing that it was being paid by the investment company to sell the investment, according to a July 11 article by the Associated Press published in the New York Times. Between 2000 and […]
Categories: Ameriprise, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Regulatory Developments
Posted by Page PerryonMay 18, 2009
On May 13, 2009, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved a rule change that requires brokers to disclose alleged sales practice violations made by a customer against a securities broker in the body of a civil lawsuit or arbitration claim, even if that broker is not named as a defendant or respondent. The […]
Categories: Ameriprise, Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Brokerage Firms, Charles Schwab, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Early Retirement Scams, Elder Abuses, ERISA Fiduciaries and Claims, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Investment Advisers, J. P. Morgan Chase, Legg Mason, Lehman Brothers, LPL Financial, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Oppenheimer, Raymond James, RBC Dain Raucher, Regulatory Developments, Smart Investing Tools, SunTrust, UBS, Variable Annuities and Equity-Indexed Annuities, Wachovia, Wells Fargo
Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 20, 2009
Ameriprise Financial Services, formerly known as American Express Financial Advisers, has been cited and fined by regulators extensively in recent months for so-called “selling-away violations.” Selling-away occurs when a financial adviser sells a client an investment product that has not been vetted and approved by the brokerage firm. Because they have not been subjected to […]
Categories: Ameriprise, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Early Retirement Scams, Elder Abuses, Regulatory Developments, Securities/Commodities Arbitration
Posted by Page PerryonOctober 19, 2007
According to an October 17, 2007 article in the Wall Street Journal, several states, including New Hampshire and Alabama, are investigating allegations that large numbers of Ameriprise customers are paying hundreds of dollars for financial plans that they never received. Instead, advisors are allegedly forging customer names to make it appear that investors received these […]
Categories: Ameriprise, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Elder Abuses