Posts belonging to Category Citigroup/Smith Barney
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 11, 2011
Mike Mayo, a banking analyst who has worked at six Wall Street firms and has a reputation for independence from the banks he covers,recently published a book that reveals the fundamental unreliability of Wall Street research recommendations. When Mayo started out on Wall Street, he says he called them as he saw them. But when […]
Categories: Brokerage Firms, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Suisse, Fairness/Just & Equitable Conduct, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, Market Developments, Misrepresentation/Omission, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Unsuitable Recommendations
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 8, 2011
Banking analyst Mike Mayo is an outlier because Wall Street’s intimidation apparently does not work on him. Mayo has written a book describing, among other things, what it was like for him to break the taboo against issuing a “Sell” recommendation on Wall Street. The title of his book, “Exile on Wall Street,” is a […]
Categories: Brokerage Firms, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Suisse, Fairness/Just & Equitable Conduct, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, Merrill Lynch, Misrepresentation/Omission, Morgan Stanley, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 7, 2011
Unfortunately, many investors are experiencing first hand the truism that hedge fund managers rarely outperform the market on consistent basis. John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made a killing when Goldman Sachs let him select bad CDO assets, which he turned around and bet against, is having a tough time in 2011. His hedge […]
Categories: Alternative Funds, Alternative Investments, Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Citigroup Hedge Funds, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Derivatives, Goldman Sachs, Hedge Funds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Private Investments/Reg D, REITs, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Structured Notes
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 7, 2011
Bloomberg reports that Citigroup invested approximately $800 million of shareholder’s equity in its own private equity and hedge funds during the third quarter, despite knowing that regulators are busy drafting the Volcker rule, which would curtail the practice. Citigroup reportedly classified the $800 million as Level 3 assets, which are illiquid assets that are valued […]
Categories: Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Citigroup Hedge Funds, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Hedge Funds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonOctober 31, 2011
U.S. District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff has been asked by the SEC and Citigroup to approve a settlement of charges that Citigroup misled investors in a $1 billion dollar CDO deal called Class Funding III that was tied to residential mortgage-backed securities. Citigroup would pay a $95 million penalty and not admit fault. The […]
Categories: Asset Backed Securities, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Goldman Sachs, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonOctober 24, 2011
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon seems to see evidence of the SEC colluding with banks to let them off the hook for most of their “built to fail” synthetic (derivatives-based) CDOs (see “Is the SEC colluding with banks on CDO prosecutions?”). What has raised eyebrows was an email from a Citigroup spokesperson saying that Citigroup has […]
Categories: Asset Backed Securities, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Rights, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonOctober 21, 2011
Occupy Wall Street has swept the globe and is generating enormous sympathy and interest in Asia as well as Europe. The spread of Occupy Wall Street to Asia ? especially Japan ? is further evidence that it is a mistake to dismiss a global groundswell of anger over the flow of money from banks to […]
Categories: Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Economy, Employment Issues, Goldman Sachs, Investor Rights, J. P. Morgan Chase, Jobs, Market Developments, UBS
Posted by Page PerryonOctober 21, 2011
America’s big brokerage firms just don’t get it. Rather than focusing on their clients’ best interests, which would enhance the firms’ long-term interests, they are focused on getting rid of so-called “less productive” financial advisers to save money, and flogging the rest to sell more high-fee products to generate more revenues for the firm. Morgan […]
Categories: Brokerage Firms, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Employment Issues, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Morgan Stanley, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, UBS
Posted by Page PerryonOctober 20, 2011
USA Today reports that Occupy Wall Street is a middle class revolt (“Protests spotlight a stressed middle class”). Long term unemployment, slumping pay, rising health care costs are behind it. “These people are not just protesting for the hell of it,” Allen Sinai, chief economist at Decision Economics in New York, which consults for banks […]
Categories: Brokerage Firms, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Economy, Goldman Sachs, Investment Advisers, Jobs, Market Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonSeptember 27, 2011
The risks are increasing for investors in principal protected notes, reverse convertibles and other structured products associated with Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. Moody’s recently announced that it has downgraded the debt of those financial institutions. One reason given: the U.S. government is unlikely to bail them out again. “It is more likely […]
Categories: Alternative Investments, Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Structured Notes, Wachovia, Wells Fargo
