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Citigroup Ordered to Pay $1 Million to Three Municipal-Bond Fund Clients

Bloomberg

Citigroup Inc. was ordered by brokerage-industry arbitrators to pay more than $1 million to three investors in its municipal-bond funds. The clients had accused the New York-based bank’s global markets unit of breaching fiduciary duty and other misconduct tied to their investments in funds known as MAT Five and MAT Three, according to an Aug. […]

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Crisis-Era Muni Funds Haunt Wall Street Brokerages

Wall Street Journal

Two years after the credit-market meltdown hit a once-booming sector of the municipal-bond market, Wall Street brokerage firms are being ordered to pay millions to investors who lost big on what some thought were low-risk investments. This month, an investor arbitration panel awarded a California family $2.1 million, the full amount of its losses on […]

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Court Denies Morgan Keegan's Request to Overturn Award

Dow Jones

An Alabama state court has denied a request by Morgan Keegan & Co. to fully overturn a securities arbitration award entered in favor of an investor, disagreeing with the company’s arguments that an arbitrator was allegedly biased. Judge Nicole Gordon Still, a civil division judge in Birmingham, affirmed a $220,000 award in favor of United […]

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Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. Found Liable For Sale of Mat Three To Investors

A Los Angeles based Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration panel awarded $550,504 to a married couple who are clients of Aidikoff, Uhl & Bakhtiari.  The award represents a return of 100 percent of the client’s losses as a result of their purchase of Mat Three. Mat Three was a leveraged municipal arbitrage hedge fund […]

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Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. Found Liable For Sale of Mat Five To Investors

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., May 12, 2010 – A Los Angeles based Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration panel awarded more than $1.7 million to three clients of Aidikoff, Uhl & Bakhtiari and Maddox, Hargett and Caruso, P.C. in connection with their purchases of Mat Five. Mat Five was a leveraged municipal arbitrage hedge fund launched […]

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