The Wall Street Journal reported on March 4, 2013 that Sallie Mae sold $1.1 billion of securities backed by private student loans, noting that demand for the offering was fifteen times that. Related to this offering, the Wall Street Journal noted that a new platform was being rolled out by…
On February 6, 2013, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced that a public customer was awarded an award of full rescission against Wachovia Securities, LLC, doing business as Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC (“Wells Fargo”) for the entirety of Fannie Mae Preferred shares recommended by Wells Fargo. By awarding full…
Fox Business reported recently that UBS is planning to reclassify many of its clients who are invested heavily in bonds as “aggressive” investors. While the report indicates this is being done as a result of growing bearishness in the bond market, some are speculating that this move is being done…
As recently reported by InvestmentNews, the estimated value of common stock in real estate investment trust (or REIT) of Wells Timberland REIT, Inc. fell to $6.56 per share. Given the illiquidity of the trust, finding that price in the market may prove difficult. That figure marks a 35% plunge in…
Professor of economics Peter J. Henning wrote July 30th for the New York Times of the ever-changing definition of what classifies as “insider trading” in today’s market. Henning’s approach is at once streamlined and nuanced, walking us through a user-friendly tutorial of how and why fiduciary duties are upheld. Because…
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), issued a news release on June 4, 2012 announcing that a FINRA hearing panel fined Brookstone Securities $1 million for the fraudulent sales of Collateralized Mortgage Obligations to elderly investors. In addition, FINRA ordered restitution from the firm and the individuals involved and permanently…
Tonight, June 5, 2012, on the 6 O’Clock Evening News on CBS 2 New York, the lawsuit filed by Malecki Law on behalf of forty-three investors in the alleged Ponzi scheme run by Robert Van Zandt will be featured. This past December, Malecki Law announced the filing of a civil…
A headline of the New York Times’ Sunday Business section published May 19th, Gretchen Morgenson asks “Is Insider Trading Part of the Fabric?“, raising a potentially distressing question for regulators and market analysts alike. Morgenson profiles the woes of one Ted Parmigiani, a Lehman Brothers investment analyst whose career was…
On Thursday May 17, 2012, the New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a press release announcing the filing of a summons and complaint to recover funds for investors. The filing coincided with an earlier press release disclosing that Mr. Robert (Bob) H. Van Zandt had been indicted and arrested…
The New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today the unsealing of a 35-count indictment of and the arrest of Robert H. Van Zandt, a Bronx tax preparer who for years sold promissory notes in alleged real estate investments “guaranteeing” high rates of interest return. He sold these promissory…