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On Wall Street
October 1, 2008
Donna Mitchell |
Auction-Rate Securities Dust Settles, But What About Small Brokerages? Observers expect red faces as regional brokerage customers are left out of the settlements and advisors better prepare for some harsh words.   |
Wall Street & Technology
May 19, 2008
Ivy Schmerken |
A Freeze in Auction-Rate Securities Opens a Door for the Restricted Securities Trading Network In the wake of the credit crisis, Restricted Stock Partners' Restricted Securities Trading Network, which was designed to trade restricted stocks, is rescuing investors trapped in auction-rate securities. |
Registered Rep.
November 8, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Auction Rate Revenge For tens of thousands of investors who were trapped in the auction rate securities debacle that started in 2008, finances are getting back to normal. |
Registered Rep.
August 7, 2008
John Churchill |
Citi Settles With SEC and Cuomo Over ARS Failure The firm has agreed to buy back auction rate securities sold to institutional and retail investors nationwide who've been stuck with the illiquid investment vehicles since February 12, 2008. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
Andrew Ackerman |
In First, Mass. Sues UBS In the first state-level lawsuit against an investment firm over auction-rate securities, Massachusetts has filed securities fraud charges against UBS for selling retail investors auction-rate paper as "liquid, safe, money-market" instruments even though the defendants knew it was not. |
Registered Rep.
March 28, 2008
David A. Geracioti |
More Trouble In Auction-Rate Securities Land The State of Massachusetts Secretary of State is investigating the sales practices of auction-rate securities, to learn how these securities are presented to individual clients in the state. |
Registered Rep.
October 8, 2008 |
Bank of America Reaches Second Settlement To Buy Back ARS The agreement closely mirrors the firm's earlier settlement with the Massachusetts Securities Division that was announced in September, 2008. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2008 |
Correction The correction of a quote regarding information gathered from brokerage clients invested in auction-rate securities. |
The Motley Fool
March 7, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Auction-Rate Anxiety The credit crisis hits leveraged mutual fund shareholders. |
CFO
July 15, 2009
Vincent Ryan |
Buyer's Remorse Treasury departments are still paying a price for auction-rate securities. |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Schwab Offers Nice Numbers, but Is It a Buy? Chuck shows them how it's done. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2009
Rich Smith |
This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades Deutsche Securities declares war on Goldman's Schwab downgrade. |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Auction Rate Ugliness Returns Quit blaming others when your portfolio explodes. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008
David Geracioti |
The Auction-Rate Mess And You Many retail investors have recently learned the hard way that auction-rate securities aren't as safe as they thought. |
The Motley Fool
October 17, 2011
Evan Niu |
Chuck Talks to Profits Charles Schwab puts up a solid quarter and keeps waiting for rates to rise. |
Registered Rep.
July 31, 2008
John Churchill |
Massachusetts Says Merrill Defrauded ARS Clients Among the many claims against Merrill Lynch is that management censored otherwise gloomy fixed income research in order to move volatile inventory out of company inventory and into client portfolios. |
Registered Rep.
April 28, 2003
Will Leitch |
Historic Settlement Doesn't Target Brokers -- But You're Hardly Home Free Now that the Wall Street global settlement is official, brokers might be inclined to heave a sigh of relief. Don't. While the settlement will have a lasting impact on the brokerage industry, brokers have been unscathed by the Spitzer investigations -- so far. |
Registered Rep.
July 20, 2009
David A. Geracioti |
The Auction Rate Securities Mess Still Lives This time it was TD Ameritrade, without admitting or denying guilt, who settled with the SEC "for making inaccurate statements when selling auction rate securities (ARS) to customers." |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Finally, Money for Auction-Rate Securities A new product may finally save investors stuck with frozen auction-rate securities. |
The Motley Fool
April 18, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Auction Rate Agony Investors get frozen out of their money as auction rate securities shrivel. |
The Motley Fool
April 8, 2008
Rich Smith |
Psst. Buddy. Wanna Buy a Bond? Auction-rate securities should make investors feel anything but secure. |
Registered Rep.
September 10, 2008 |
Bank of America to Buy Its ARs Back The nation's second-largest bank by assets settled an investigation by Massachusetts regulators, agreeing to buy back $4.5 billion worth of the securities. |
BusinessWeek
July 16, 2009
Farzad & Palmeri |
Should Charles R. Schwab Aim Higher? Some say the conservative brokerage firm Charles R. Schwab should be more aggressive as rivals such as E*Trade Financial founder. |
The Motley Fool
August 21, 2009
Tim Beyers |
These Tech Stocks Will Make Me Rich Week 54 of one Motley Fool analyst's real-money investment in five technology stocks. |
Registered Rep.
September 3, 2008
John Churchill |
Brokers Charged In Fraudulently Selling $1bn Of ARS To Retail Clients In the first case of its kind, the SEC announced today that it has charged two individual financial advisors with fraud related to the sale of more than $1 billion in auction-rate securities. |
The Motley Fool
April 15, 2011
Andrew Bond |
Charles Schwab Sitting Pretty The discount broker enjoys a strong quarter. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
John Kador |
Schwab Does It Again Charles Schwab, the pioneering discount broker who was slammed by the tech wreck and suffered through protracted management struggles in the past two years, is beating the wirehouses at their own game. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Schwab's Summer Doldrums Summer may be starting to sizzle, but Charles Schwab delivered another dose of tepid news today. The online broker said that a variety of current trends have left it unlikely to beat estimates for its coming second quarter |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Discount Brokers Gone Wild Schwab is selling. Ameritrade is buying. Let's take a quick look at both deals to see how they aren't all that different. |
Registered Rep.
December 11, 2008 |
SEC Finalizes $30 Billion ARS Settlement With Citi And UBS The $30 billion settlement is the largest in SEC history and restores liquidity to ARS investors at par value of their holdings. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2009
Robert Steyer |
The Daily Walk of Shame: Auction Rate Securities Auction rate securities were promoted as being as safe as CDs, but when the ARS soured in early 2008 and customers wanted their money back, promoters said the accounts were frozen. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2003
John Kador |
Why Wall St. Hates Charles Schwab Charles Schwab: How One Company Beat Wall Street and Reinvented the Brokerage Industry is the first full-length book about Schwab by an independent writer. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2004
Nathan Slaughter |
Should Schwab Shed Soundview? The discount broker is in talks with UBS to sell its capital markets division. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2006
Lynn Hume |
TBMA Launches Bond Indexes The Bond Market Association published the first of a weekly series of eight indexes covering different kinds of auction-rate securities. The indexes are designed to give issuers and investors benchmarks to evaluate the rates they are getting on securities sold through the auction process. |
Registered Rep.
June 9, 2008 |
Credit Downgrades, More Write-Downs And The ARS Market Credit downgrades to MBIA and AMBAC Financial Group, the world's largest bond insurers, will lead to more write-downs at Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and UBS, according to a new research report. |
Registered Rep.
June 3, 2009
David Geracioti |
ARS Games -- SEC Blames Firms, Settles with BAC, RBC and DEUTSCHE When the auction rate securities market froze up in February 2008, angry clients blamed their financial advisors. |
BusinessWeek
April 18, 2005
Aaron Pressman |
The Busiest Broker On Earth Fidelity's Internet operation has turned up the pressure on Schwab and other rivals. |
The Motley Fool
April 15, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Seed of Chucky Schwab's first quarter may seem lackluster, but there's more to the numbers than meets the eye. Now would be a good time to take a closer look at Schwab. |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Addition Through Subtraction at Charles Schwab The discounter settles for its ill-advised marketing of an ill-fated bond fund. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2008
Rich Duprey |
The Auction-Rate Thaw Turns to a Flood Settlements by big investment banks may finally inundate the frozen market with cash. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
Chucked! If Charles Schwab cannot soon deliver on its goal of reaching all kinds of customers, then perhaps the board will insist on another change, this time moving the company back to its model of the 1990s, when Schwab was clearly a discount broker. |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Take This Schwab and Love It Schwab is growing nicely in a tricky environment. Investors, take note. |
Registered Rep.
June 29, 2011
Kristen French |
Raymond James Hit With $300 million ARS Settlement; Pay Back For All ARS Clients The company has agreed to a multi-state settlement that will require the firm to buy back $300 million in auction rate securities it sold to clients prior to the collapse of the ARS market in February of 2008. |
The Motley Fool
August 30, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Who You Trade With Does Matter It's easy to think that one broker fits all, but nothing could be further from the truth. Take the time to get to know your brokerage options. Only then will you have the knowledge base to make your best choice. |
The Motley Fool
July 24, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Discount Broker, Expensive Stock Charles Schwab is back on track, but the stock isn't cheap. Investors, paying too much for the stock of a discount broker seems to really defeat the whole purpose. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to Steven Rattner Quadrangle's co-founder and Obama's car czar just settled with the SEC over the pay-to-play pension fund scandal. Now, Andrew Cuomo wants a piece of him. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell |
Hot Topics FINRA steps in... $80 million settlement of two class-action suits by Securities America... Whistleblower payday... |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
Defending Wall Street The criminal investigations that are being launched against Wall Street firms are woefully misdirected. |
Registered Rep.
August 30, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Schwab Buys ETF Firm Schwab paid $150 million in cash and stock for the company, which fits into Schwab's longer-term strategy of expanding its ETF offerings. |
Registered Rep.
December 3, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Charles Schwab Accused of Its Own Conflict of Interest When big brokerage firms were being accused of conflict-of-interest in research, Charles Schwab & Co. was quick to capitalize on its rivals' embarrassment with a string of ads proclaiming Schwab's independence. But that was a lie, according to a lawsuit. |
