The Daily Journal
When the stock market tanked three years ago, a lot of investors lost their shirts. Some brokerage houses blamed market forces for their customers’ shrunken portfolios. Merrill Lynch took that position after two of its clients, brothers Aleks and Michel Horvat, lost more than $2 million over an eight-month period in 2000. The brothers subsequently […]
Dow Jones Newswires
Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER) lost $2.14 million in an arbitration case to two Los Angeles brothers who the firm claims tried to mirror the trading strategies of Hollywood director Michael Bay. The brothers, Aleks and Michel Horvat, accused the firm of churning their accounts and placing them in unsuitable stocks, including Broadcom Corp. (BRCM) […]
PR Newswire
An NASD arbitration panel ordered Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER-news) to pay two former customers more than $2.1 million stemming from the company’s sale to them of unsuitable securities, excessive trading of their accounts and failure to supervise. Brothers Alex and Michel Horvat alleged that Win Troung, a broker in the Merrill Lynch Beverly Hills office, […]
NBC4.TV
LOS ANGELES — Marilyn and Dean Aspinal of Orange County are having a financial crisis after losing nearly a quarter of a million dollars in the stock market. They claim their stockbroker recommended investments inappropriate for people about to retire. “He said, ‘I’m going to put you in some technology stocks. We’re going to make […]
Los Angeles Times
When Oscar Bugarini was downsized into early retirement from Boeing Co.’s Long Beach aircraft plant in 1999, he turned his $240,000 in retirement savings over to brokerage Salomon Smith Barney, asking in writing for a conservative portfolio balanced among “value” stocks, bonds and cash. Instead, Bugarini says, he wound up with technology stocks and Salomon-managed […]