Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is recommending that its financial advisers pull client money out of Paulson’s Advantage and Advantage Plus funds, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Morgan Stanley had been watching Paulson’s performance for months and prepared for this move when it told advisers last spring to stop putting new money […]
Peter Madoff will serve 10 years in prison for his role in his older brother’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, a U.S. judge said on Thursday. Peter Madoff, 67, pleaded guilty in June to criminal charges including conspiracy to commit securities fraud for falsifying the books and records of the investment advisory company founded by his brother, […]
Aidikoff, Uhl & Bakhtiari announces the launch of an investigation of the sales practices of LPL Financial, LLC in recommending non-traded REITs to their clients. The investigation follows the recently filed complaint by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Securities Division into similar non-traded REIT sales practices. The Massachusetts complaint charged LPL with dishonest and unethical business […]
A sole UBS trader used a combination of bribery, flattery and fictitious trading to rig the price of money over three years, regulatory filings show. The employee, only identified by regulators as “Trader A,” colluded with brokers, counterparts at other firms and his colleagues to influence yen Libor, which reflects how much banks charge each for […]
LPL one the largest independent U.S. broker-dealers, was accused by Massachusetts regulators today of dishonest and unethical business practices and failure to supervise agents who made improper sales. The complaint relates to sales of seven non-traded real estate investment trusts in violation of state and company rules, according to a statement from the state’s senior […]