Posts belonging to Category Morgan Keegan
Posted by Page PerryonApril 13, 2011
The Spanish bank, Banco Santander SA, agreed to pay $2 million to resolve charges that its Puerto Rico-based brokerage improperly sold a group of structured products known as reverse convertibles to retail customers, including the elderly. (“Sale of reverse convertibles dings another B-D,” InvestmentNews, April 12, 2011).
Categories: Ameriprise, Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Structured Notes, UBS
Posted by Page PerryonMarch 15, 2011
Expecting licensed professionals who provide investment advice to act in their clients’ best interests “should be a basic tenet of the business,” but brokerage firms and their brokers don’t want that fiduciary yoke, says Karen Blumenthal in her InvestmentNews article, “When Your Adviser Can’t Be Trusted.” Moreover, they don’t want the public to know that […]
Categories: A General Overview, Ameriprise, Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Brokerage Firms, Charles Schwab, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Fairness/Just & Equitable Conduct, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, J. P. Morgan Chase, Legg Mason, LPL Financial, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Oppenheimer, Raymond James, RBC Dain Raucher, Regulatory Developments, Securities America, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, SunTrust, TD Ameritrade, UBS, Wachovia, Wells Fargo
Posted by Page PerryonFebruary 16, 2011
If you are an investor who lost money in the financial crisis, your stockbroker or investment advisor may owe you money. There are a variety of legal claims that can be brought for investment malpractice, ranging from fraud and misrepresentation to making unsuitable investment recommendations. But there are also legal deadlines for bringing such claims, […]
Categories: Asset Backed Securities, Auction Rate Securities, Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Barclays, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Citigroup Hedge Funds, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Credit Suisse, Derivatives, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Hedge Funds, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, J. P. Morgan Chase, Legg Mason, LPL Financial, Misrepresentation/Omission, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Oppenheimer, Preferred Stocks, Raymond James, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Structured Notes, SunTrust, UBS, Unsuitable Recommendations, Wachovia, Wells Fargo
Posted by Page PerryonFebruary 14, 2011
The new whistleblower program that pays big cash rewards for tips about investment fraud has already resulted in a large number of high quality tips to the SEC, according to a news story this week on CNBC. According to the report, the SEC expects to receive 30,000 tips this year?just one year after the program […]
Categories: Ameriprise, Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Barclays, Brokerage Firms, Charles Schwab, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Employment Issues, Fidelity, Financial Industry Whistleblowers, Goldman Sachs, J. P. Morgan Chase, Legg Mason, LPL Financial, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Oppenheimer, Raymond James, RBC Dain Raucher, Regulatory Developments, Securities America, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, State Street, SunTrust, TD Ameritrade, UBS, Wells Fargo
Posted by Page PerryonDecember 18, 2010
While many investors who lost money when the auction rate securities market collapsed in 2008 have now been made whole by regulatory settlements and redemptions, others have not been as fortunate and are still holding on to illiquid securities. Because regulatory settlements focused on the worst offenders in the industry, not all firms that sold […]
Categories: Auction Rate Securities, Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, J. P. Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Oppenheimer, Raymond James, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, SunTrust, UBS
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 22, 2010
Wall Street may face a wave of lawsuits under an expanded version of the Martin Act, New York’s securities anti-fraud statute, if the newly elected Governor of New York has his way, according to a Wall Street Journal Deal Journal blog entitled, “And the Next Mortal Threat to Wall Street Is’”.
Categories: Ameriprise, Bank of America, Barclays, Brokerage Firms, Charles Schwab, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Investment Advisers, J. P. Morgan Chase, Legg Mason, LPL Financial, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Oppenheimer, Raymond James, RBC Dain Raucher, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities America, Securities Class Actions, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, State Street, SunTrust, TD Ameritrade, UBS, Wachovia, Wells Fargo
Posted by Page PerryonJuly 27, 2010
White House executive “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg has decided not to negotiate with 17 Wall Street firms to rescind $1.6 billion in payments to executive that Feinberg himself described as “ill advised” and payments that “[t]hey should not have made,” according to articles in the Atlanta Journal Constitution (“Bank execs get to l]keep $1.6 billion” […]
Categories: Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, Goldman Sachs, J. P. Morgan Chase, Market Developments, Morgan Keegan, SunTrust, Wells Fargo
Posted by Page PerryonJune 11, 2010
Merrill Lynch and other Wall Street firms sold the riskiest tranches of collateralized debt obligations (“CDOs”), not just to institutions, but to individual investors, as safe investments, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article by Dan Fitzgerald titled “Didn’t See Risk, and Got Stung.” Now that the CDOs have imploded, and investors are seeking […]
Categories: Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Brokerage Firms, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Suisse, Derivatives, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Investment Advisers, J. P. Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Oppenheimer, Raymond James, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, State Street, Structured Notes, UBS, Wachovia
Posted by Page PerryonApril 14, 2010
Last week, in an almost unprecedented manner, three groups of securities regulators ? the SEC, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and various state regulators ? almost simultaneously filed enforcement actions against Morgan Keegan for fraud arising out of its sales of 6 toxic bond funds. The regulatory investigations had been going on for several […]
Categories: Bonds, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Derivatives, Morgan Keegan, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Structured Notes
Posted by Page PerryonApril 8, 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Morgan Keegan and its touted managing director, James Kelsoe, with securities fraud for deliberately inflating the value of subprime securities in order to hide losses in Morgan Keegan’s proprietary toxic bond mutual funds. See Joe Bel Bruno’s recent Wall Street Journal article, “Morgan Keegan and Its Onetime Star […]
Categories: Bonds, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Derivatives, Morgan Keegan, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Mutual Funds, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
