Compensatory damages have been awarded to Carlos Ramon Tapia Sanchez, a client of Francisco Valenzuela, a former broker from Morgan Stanley. who accused the firm of negligence as well as failure to supervise. The Phoenix, Arizona based three-member panel of public arbitrators held the firm responsible for these acts, for which it has to pay […]
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Alternative asset firm GWG Holdings, Inc., filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 on the 20th of April, 2022, leaving a large number of investors in GWG L Bonds with gaping holes in their portfolios. This announcement comes even as GWG Holdings has been courting trouble for some time. It has failed to submit required
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Robert Turner, a former UBS financial advisor, based in Texas is being pursued by his one-time employer UBS for misappropriation of funds and causing losses exceeding $17 million in the accounts of 23 customers of the firm. The period of the alleged wrongdoing is a fairly stretched-out period lasting 24 years according to KWTX, based
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Brookfield managed private real estate trusts are set to acquire the publicly registered non-traded real estate investment trust (REIT), Watermark Lodging Trust, Inc. It will be an all-cash transaction and the price agreed is $3.8 billion, taking into account the assumption of debt as well as preferred equity. Unfortunately, many Watermark REIT investors will receive
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Haselkorn & Thibaut are currently investigating Aegis Capital for several issues including the sales of GWG Holdings L Bonds and other investment products. It is alleged that financial advisors at Aegis Capital did several things including misrepresenting the true risk of the investment, overconcentrated the holdings of clients, and not properly supervising. In January, GWG
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