Posts belonging to Category Oppenheimer
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 PerryonJune 11, 2010
According to a recent article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, “at least a dozen local governments and other institutions that used derivative deals called swaps to try to lower the cost of bond issues have ended up owing as much as $394 million in fees to the Wall Street investment banks that set up the […]
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 Stanley, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Oppenheimer, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Structured Notes, UBS, Wachovia
Posted by Page PerryonApril 2, 2010
Brokerage firms’ advertising portrays brokers as trusted members of the family, writes Tara Siegel Bernard in her New York Times article, “Trusted Adviser or Stock Pusher? Finance Bill May Not Settle It.” Anyone who has tried to hold a broker to a fiduciary standard of conduct, however, hears a very different response: “We are mere […]
Categories: Ameriprise, Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, Charles Schwab, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Investment Advisers, J. P. Morgan Chase, LPL Financial, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Oppenheimer, Raymond James, RBC Dain Raucher, Regulatory Developments, Smart Investing Tools, SunTrust, UBS, Wachovia, Wells Fargo
Posted by Page PerryonMarch 25, 2010
According to a recent Bloomberg National Poll, more than 50% of Americans despise Wall Street and favor punishment of the bankers who caused the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The majority of poll participants — 56 percent — say big financial companies are more interested in enriching themselves at the expense of ordinary […]
Categories: Ameriprise, Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Brokerage Firms, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Investment Advisers, J. P. Morgan Chase, Legg Mason, Lehman Brothers, LPL Financial, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Oppenheimer, Raymond James, RBC Dain Raucher, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities America, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, State Street, SunTrust, TD Ameritrade, UBS, Wachovia, Wells Fargo
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 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 PerryonJune 22, 2009
A new wave of lawsuits and arbitrations are being filed on behalf of investors who purchased auction rate securities but have not been eligible to participate in redemptions offered by big banks as a result of regulatory settlements. See article entitled “‘Stranded’ ARS investors sue for a share of pie” by Jed Horowitz in the […]
Categories: Auction Rate Securities, Bonds, Brokerage Firms, Morgan Keegan, Oppenheimer, Raymond James, Regulatory Developments, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, UBS
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 PerryonApril 23, 2009
Ashland Inc., the maker of Valvoline motor oil, has filed sit against Oppenheimer & Co. for selling the company $194 million of illiquid auction-rate securities after lying about the nature of auction-rate securities and the stability of the auction-rate securities market. So reported Morgan Bettax in an April 17, 2009 article entitled “Valvoline Maker Lodges […]
Categories: Auction Rate Securities, Bonds, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Derivatives, Oppenheimer, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonFebruary 20, 2009
Investors who still hold auction-rate securities are facing many increasing problems, according to an article in today’s Bloomberg.com by Michael McDonald. Last February, the $330 billion market for auction-rate securities essentially froze when major Wall Street firms discontinued supporting auction-rate securities. A year later, investors are still stuck with as much as $176 billion of […]
Categories: Auction Rate Securities, Bank of America, Bonds, Brokerage Firms, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, J. P. Morgan Chase, Market Developments, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Municipal Bonds, Oppenheimer, Raymond James, SunTrust, UBS, Wachovia, Wells Fargo
