The share of private placements bonds and structured securities has risen markedly in the fixed-income portfolios of U.S. health insurers in recent years as carriers have retooled investment ...

Structured securities are so complex that perhaps 1 in 100 investors who acquire them understand them. They are sold based on investors’ fear of loss rather than their potential for competitive market ...

U.S. Supreme Court Allows 1933 Act Securities Class Actions to Proceed in State Court, Continuing Trend of Strict Statutory Construction. Plaintiffs seeking to pursue securities misrepresentation ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...

The Security Valuation Office (SVO) has been challenging the reliance on credit rating provider (CRP) ratings for some time. The SVO had previously proposed defining “Structured Equity and Fund” ...

Broker-dealers’ sales of structured products, including private-placement notes and reverse convertibles, remain a top concern of state securities regulators, according to Joseph Borg, director of the ...

Following the collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage market in mid-2007, market concerns about the exposure of structured securities to subprime loans dramatically slashed liquidity. Mark-to-market ...

Nonetheless, in a letter to Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd and Ranking Member Richard Shelby on Tuesday, the organizations suggested that differentiating between ratings would only ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday that Centaurus Financial Inc., one of its branch managers and a registered rep had reached a $1 million settlement in connection with unsuitable ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Academy Securities, a registered broker-dealer certified as a Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise(DVBE) and Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), today announced the addition ...