National Financial Services Customers Have 60 Days To Transfer GPB Investments Five months after announcing that investors of GPB Capital Holdings private placements would no longer be carrying these alternative investments (AI) on its platform, National Financial Services (NFS) is sending letters to customers notifying them that they have 60…
Scott P. Strochak, an ex-broker, has pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to his involvement in the $3.8M Castleberry Financial Services Fraud. He is also now facing parallel civil fraud charges brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Prosecutors charged Strochak, who was the Director of Alternative Investments…
An alternative investment fraud settlement has been reached between Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments and the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, in which the independent broker-dealer will pay $9.5M. The tribe had filed an arbitration claim contending that it didn’t know that it was paying the firm millions of dollars…
The Massachusetts securities division is widening its probe into alleged proxy voting fraud at Realty Capital Securities to include independent broker-dealers and advisers that sold RCS alternative investments, including nontraded real estate investment trusts. According to Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin’s complaint against RCS, firm employees communicated with…
ITG Inc. and affiliate AlterNet Securities will pay $20.3M to resolve Securities and Exchange Commission charges accusing them of running a secret trading desk and misusing dark pool subscribers’ confidential trading information. As part of the settlement, ITG admitted to wrongdoing. According to the regulator, even though it told the…
Kara Stein, an SEC commissioner, is calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to examine whether exchange-traded funds and alternative funds are managing to get around certain rules and placing investors at risk. Stein said that both types of funds, which use high-risk complex investment strategies or place their money…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is developing regulations that would make sure that mutual funds are liquid enough to satisfy client redemptions and money managers have a plan should a fund fail. Part of the regulator’s strategy may include limiting how mutual funds are allowed to place in assets…
According to a survey issued by Morningstar Inc., financial advisers may be using the wrong benchmark when evaluating and choosing alternative investments. The research firm and Barron’s magazine questioned 301 advisers and 372 institutional investors. Right now, the most popular way that advisers assess their investments’ performance is with a…