Why You Should Contact A Seasoned Retirement Loss Attorney Right Away Unfortunately, retirees and older investors are especially vulnerable to significant investment losses. This is why it is so important that your broker only markets products or investment strategies to you that are suitable for you given your investing profile,…
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Massachusetts Fines MML Investors Services $250K For Failing to Supervise Ex-Broker Charles Evan
State Securities Regulator Seeks to Ban Former Capital Planning Group Investment Adviser Massachusetts securities regulator William Galvin has fined MassMutual broker-dealer subsidiary MML Investors Services $250K for its alleged failure to supervise its former registered representative Charles Jonathan Evan. The ex-Wellesley, MA broker is also a former registered investment adviser…
Investor Redemptions in Legion Strategies from Skybridge Capital Are Suspended
Broker-Dealers May Have Not Fully Apprised Hedge Fund Investors of the Risks According to Bloomberg, sources report that on July 18, 2022, Legion Strategies suspended investor redemptions. The hedge fund is managed by Anthony Scaramucci’s Skybridge Capital. Scaramucci was a communications director for former US President Trump for eleven days…
Texas Bankruptcy Judge Approves New Chapter 11 Financing Option for GWG Holdings
New Financing Package Is Still No Guarantee of Financial Recovery for 27,000 L Bond Investors The Texas Southern Bankruptcy Court has approved a new debtor-in-possession financing package for GWG Holdings. The alternative asset firm, which sold $1.6B of L Bonds to investors, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April…
SSEK Law Firm Is Representing More Investors with GWG L Bond Claims Against Centaurus Financial
Retail Customers Are Each Requesting Up to Six Figures in Damages for Their Losses Our GWG L Bond loss attorneys continue to file Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration claims against Centaurus Financial because its affiliated brokers unsuitably marketed and sold L Bond to customers, including inexperienced investors and retirees.…
UBS YES Customers of Houston Broker William Huthnance Are Pursuing $1.8M in Damages
Investors Allege Unsuitability and Misrepresentations Our UBS Yield Enhancement Strategy (UBS YES) investment loss attorneys are speaking with customers of UBS Financial Services broker William Word Huthnance in Houston, Texas. Huthnance, who has worked for 20 years in the industry, is accused of allegedly unsuitably recommending the firm’s risky iron…
Former Clarity Capital Partners’ Kyle Chapman in Newport Beach Sold GWG L Bonds to Retail Customers
Irvine, CA Claimants Are Pursuing Up To $500K in Damages from American Trust Investment Services Three Southern California investors have filed a six-figure Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration claim against broker-dealer American Trust Investment Services over their GWG L Bond losses. The claimants, who are related, worked with former…
Nelson Partners’ Liquidation Plan That Would Pay $50M to Skyloft Austin Investors Gets Final Court Approval
Unfortunately, Property Management Firm May Not Be Able to Come Up with All the Funds According to attorneys for Greg Milligan, the plan administrator for liquidation proceedings involving luxury high-rise student building Skyloft Austin, a court has approved on a final basis the liquidation plan that would require Nelson Partners…
Moloney Securities Brokers Shane DeSherlia and Dale Timmerman Allegedly Unsuitably Recommended GWG L Bonds to Illinois Retirees
Brokerage Firm Allegedly Pursued Commissions over Customers’ Best Interests Three Illinois retirees have filed a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration claim against Moloney Securities, pursuing up to six figures in damages for bond losses sustained in GWG Holdings L Bonds. The two brokers, Shane Michael DeSherlia and Dale Erbin…
SEC Fines Aegis Capital $2.3M Over Allegedly Unsuitable Variable Interest Rate Structured Product Sales
Aegis Brokers in Melville, NY and Boca Raton, FL Allegedly Unsuitably Recommended VRSPs to 48 Customers, Including Elderly Investors In July 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed civil charges against Aegis Capital Corp., former Managing Director Alan Zelig Appelbaum, and ex-broker Paul Francis Gallivan. They are charged…