Friday, August 15, 2008

WexTrust Capital Investigation Eerily Similar to Peter Dawson’s Long Island Fraud

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For as sophisticated as today's financial gurus claim to be, the old-fashion Ponzi scheme is still alive and well. Indeed, the SEC filed...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

What the Auction Rate Securities Settlement Doesn’t Do

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The New York State Attorney General and the other regulators participating in the auction rate securities (ARS) settlement talks are surely ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Hedge Fund Losses Could Lead to Style Drift

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Reuters reports on key indexes pointing to large losses by hedge funds in the month of July - and likely for the foreseeable future. The r...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

The Decision to Sue a Financial Advisor is not so Cut and Dry

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A recent Money Magazine columnist, who carries the nom de plume of “The Mole” and is an undercover financial planner, wrote a column entitle...
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Monday, August 04, 2008

Merril Lynch's Microwave Ovens

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The focus on Merrill Lynch these days is on its tattered balance sheet, namely the more than $30 billion in mortgage-related assets it wrote...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Banks Stocks the Next Tech-Bubble?

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It comes as no surprise that the subprime/credit crunch crisis has led to an increased level of securities class action filings. Research f...
Friday, July 25, 2008

FINRA Pilot Arbitration Program is a Step in the Right Direction

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Yesterday FINRA announced a pilot program to do away with the financial services industry participant in arbitration panels. Rather, all th...

Frank Quattrone’s Utopia

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I’m quite sure everyone will take Frank Quattrone’s recent comments about returning to his glory days of conflicts between research and inve...