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Loss Recovery: REIT Investors Suffer Significant Losses in 2013
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Investment fraud lawyers currently are investigating claims on behalf of investors who suffered significant losses as a result of unsuitable recommendations of real estate investment trusts, or REITs. Though the risks of non-traded REITs are now well-known, publicly-traded REITs also are not without risks. Reportedly, many investors suffered significant losses in 2013 because they were…

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Variable Annuities Unsuitable for Many Investors, Especially Retirees
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Securities fraud attorneys are currently investigating claims on behalf of investors — especially older, retired investors — who suffered significant losses because of the unsuitable recommendation of variable annuities. Variable annuities are a type of insurance product. With this product, the investor pays into an account now in exchange for the guarantee of a future…

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Las defensas anticipadas en el caso en contra de UBS por los fondos puertorriqueños
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Independiente de la investigación y los estándares industriales que dicen que UBS no debía estar vendiendo los bonos de la forma en que lo estaba haciendo, UBS encontrara una forma de defender sus actos. Aunque cada caso sea un poco diferente en cuanto a los hechos, lo mas seguro es que UBS usará la siguientes…

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Como UBS incumplió sus deberes fiduciarios al vender los bonos puertorriqueños
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La venta continua y masiva de los bono municipales y los fondos propietarios de UBS en Puerto Rico involucra el incumplimiento de sus deberes fiduciarios, según el caso de cada inversionista. Según la investigación de la SEC, UBS estaba bajo orden de su casa matriz de vender los bonos puertorriqueños. Para lograr esto, UBS continua…

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Unsuitable ETF Sales Lead to Restitution for Investors
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Securities fraud attorneys are currently investigating claims on behalf of customers of full-service brokerage firms for unsuitable sales of leveraged and inverse ETFs, or exchange-traded funds. On January 9, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced that it ordered Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. Inc. and Century Securities Associates Inc. to pay $475,000 in restitution and…

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New Research Indicates Investors Already Lost Billions in Puerto Rico Bond Funds
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Investment fraud lawyers continue to investigate claims on behalf of investors who have suffered significant losses in UBS Puerto Rico closed-end municipal bond funds. Allegedly, UBS Puerto Rico has engaged in questionable sales practices related to certain closed-end bond funds, including leveraged fixed income funds. New research has indicated that investor losses now amount to…

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Nuevos estudios estiman pérdidas de alrededor de $1.66 mil millones durante los primeros nueves meses de 2013
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Inversionistas en los fondos municipales emitidos por UBS están perdiendo mil millones de dólares. Diecinueve fondos cerrados municipales vendidos por UBS en Puerto Rico perdieron $1.66 mil millones durante los primeros nueves meses del año pasado. El mercado para la deuda municipal puertorriqueña, actualmente de $70 mil millones, tocó fondo después que Detroit se declarara…

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Securities Regulator FINRA Fines Brokerage Firm Stifel, Nicolaus For Alleged Unsuitable Leveraged ETF Sales
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Stifel Nicolaus & Co., a brokerage firm, and its subsidiary, Century Securities Inc., must pay fines and restitution of over one million dollars to settle Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) charges concerning alleged unsuitable sales of leveraged exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) to customers. FINRA alleged that Stifel and a subsidiary sold leveraged and inverse ETFs to…

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¿UBS le cobró a los inversionistas de los fondos mutuos en exceso?
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En un artículo recientemente publicado por Craig McCann, preguntó si UBS había cobrado demasiado por los bonos emitidos en Puerto Rico. Según McCann, UBS ha dicho que no se podían identificar cuales ventas listadas en la información suministrada por EMMS eran ventas de bonos y que, como UBS no estaba suministrando la información, no se…

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¿Incumplirá Puerto Rico sus obligaciones?
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Los fondos de bonos puertorriqueños invirtieron en deuda puertorriqueña hasta 140% por medio de apalancamiento. Este uso tan extremo de apalancamiento ha intensificado el decline reciente de los fondos. Ahora estos inversionistas, no solo se preocupan de perder una gran parte de sus inversiones, sino que se preocupan que Puerto Rico incumpla sus obligaciones y…

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