Pending Customer Complaints Seek $250K and $1M, Respectively If you or someone you love lost money while working with stockbroker Walter Roland Valenzuela, our investor attorneys want to speak with you. Valenzuela, who became a Kestra Investment Services broker this year, has been the subject of 10 customer complaints during…
Morrow Allegedly Made Unsuitable Recommendations Involving Alternative Investments In what is at least the thirteenth customer complaint naming him, Concorde Investment Services broker William Aubrey Morrow is once more accused of making unsuitable investment recommendations to an investor. Morrow, who also operates under the name Financial Designs, LTD, has been…
Former National Securities Stockbroker Named in Over 12 Customer Disputes Thomas Edison Kelly, Jr., an Aegis Capital broker, has been the subject of a number of customer complaints between 2013 and 2020, three of which are still pending. Prior to working for Aegis Capital in 2018, Kelly was a National…
Diamond and Other Kalos Capital Brokers Are Accused of Broker Fraud Arni Diamond, who is now a registered representative with Dempsey Lord Smith, is currently the subject of a pending $200K broker fraud claim accusing him of making unsuitable alternative investment recommendations reportedly while he was a Kalos Capital broker. …
State Securities Regulator Claims GPB Capital Defrauded 180 Local Investors Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, William Galvin, has filed a civil fraud lawsuit against GPB Capital Holdings accusing it of defrauding 180 local investors who purchased more than $14M of private placements in five of the GPB funds. The alternative…
Investors Claim UBS YES Strategy Was Mismarketed To Them: SEC Looking Into the Allegations If you are an investor whose UBS broker recommended that you employ the UBS YES (Yield Enhancement Strategy) and you’ve since suffered significant losses, you may have grounds for an investment fraud claim. Unfortunately, UBS and…
Throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, investors are finding themselves hit with huge investment losses, especially over the last few months as COVID-19 has shut down the economy, rattled the markets, and caused an oil price war. While the Coronavirus has negatively impacted many investments, you should know that some…
LPL Blocks Sales of Nontraded Real Estate Investment Trusts and Publicly Traded Property Interval Funds This week, LPL Financial (LPLA) announced that it had suspended its sales of several nontraded REITs, as well as a number of publicly traded property interval funds. This is because the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was…
Structured Notes See Steep Decline During Coronavirus Market Crisis Just weeks into the finansial crisis wrought by the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), many investors are struggling to deal with the volatile impact of this pandemic not just on the markets but also on their portfolios. But what many of them don’t…
Broker Fraud Along With The Coronavirus May Be Causing Investment Losses Becoming the victim of securities fraud is a serious matter. With stocks plummeting and the markets fluctuating all over the place in the wake of COVID-19, investors may not realize that it’s not just the economic reverberations of the…