Retail Investors Were Allegedly Told To Hold Exchange-Traded Products for Too Long In separate settlements reached with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Royal Alliance Associates, Securities America Advisors, Summit Financial Group, Benjamin F. Edwards & Co., and American Portfolio Financial Services / American Portfolio Advisers will pay over…
Structured Product Losses Stun Retail Investors Who Should Never Have Been Told By Brokers To Buy Them The recent market turbulence caused by the coronavirus has caused many investors’ portfolios to suffer huge losses, and nowhere is this more evident as the losses suffered by those who invested heavily in…
SSEK Investigating Financial Advisor That Recommended Unsuitable MLPs To Investors Shepherd, Smith, Edwards & Kantas, a law firm specializing in representing wronged investors, is looking into allegations against financial advisors that concentrated their clients in Alerian MLP ETF (“AMLP”) and other oil & gas related master limited partnerships (“MLPs”) amid…
ETF Investors Of United States Oil Fund May Not Have Known Full Extent Of Risks Our investment fraud lawyers are offering free case consultations to investors who’ve lost money in the United States Oil Fund (USO) after it dropped 30%. The exchange-traded security continues to make changes to its structure…
Inverse and Leveraged ETNs and ETFs Are Shuttering As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to adversely affect the markets and cause crude oil prices to drop, the number of inverse and leveraged exchange-traded notes (ETNs), exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded products (ETPs) involving crude oil that have been forced to…
Non-Traditional Exchange-Traded Funds Are Not Suitable For Every Investor Our securities fraud attorneys at Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas (SSEK Law Firm) are looking into complaints by investors whose brokers may have inappropriately recommended that they invest in non-traditional exchange-traded funds (ETFs). These types of ETFs are leveraged, inverse and…
Kalos Capital Broker Sold GPB Private Placements and LIETFs Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas, LLP (SSEK Law Firm) is investigating customer complaints involving Darren Michael Kubiak, a Kalos Capital broker who is currently suspended from the industry for three months. Kubiak is one of the Kalos representatives who sold GPB…
Shepherd, Smith, Edwards & Kantas (“SSEK”), a law firm specializing in representing wronged investors, is looking into allegations against Financial West Group and its broker Daniel Gordon Maughan. It is alleged that Maughan excessively traded and churned a client’s Trust Account at his member firm. A arbitration complaint has already…
F-Squared Investments Inc. has consented to pay $35M to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges accusing the firm of making false claims regarding the performance of a key investment product. F-Squared admitted that it misled clients for several years about its AlphaSector strategy. F-Squared is the largest marketer of index…
The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking at whether Pacific Investment Management Co, artificially upped the returns of a fund that targeted smaller investors. At issue is the way the $3.6B Pimco Total Return ETF (BOND) purchased investments at a discount but depended on higher valuations for the investments when…