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PIABA BRIEFS: PIABA vs SEC, Appellant's Opening Brief (November 25, 2013)
COMMENT LETTER: SR-FINRA-2013-045 - Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change to Revise the Series 6 Examination Program (November 14, 2013)
REPORT: Expungement Study of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (October 16, 2013)
PRESS RELEASE: PIABA Study: Stockbroker Arbitration Slates Wiped Clean 9 out of 10 Times When “Expungement” Sought in Settled Cases (October 16, 2013)
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Disconnect Between What Brokerages Say and Do?
Disconnect Between What Brokerages Say and Do?, by Jason ZweigThe Wall Street Journal (March 25, 2015 12:31 pm) --The controversy surrounding whether stockbrokers and other securities salespeople…
PIABA: Federal Action Needed To Stop U.S. Brokerage Firms Misleading Investors About Role As Fiduciaries, Which Firms Deny To Block Arbitration Claims
Advertising Like Doctors, Arbitrating Like Used Car Salesmen: "Huge Disconnect" Seen Between Brokerage Ad Claims and Tactics Used to Fight Aggrieved Investors; SEC and DOL Action Seen as Vital.…
PIABA: FEDERAL ACTION NEEDED TO STOP U.S. BROKERAGE FIRMS MISLEADING INVESTORS ABOUT ROLE AS FIDUCIARIES, WHICH FIRMS DENY TO BLOCK ARBITRATION CLAIMS
Advertising Like Doctors, Arbitrating Like Used Car Salesmen: "Huge Disconnect" Seen Between Brokerage Ad Claims and Tactics Used to Fight Aggrieved Investors; SEC and DOL Action Seen as…
PIABA Slams Nine Brokerages, But Is Their Report Sound?
PIABA Slams Nine Brokerages, But Is Their Report Sound?, by Megan LeonhardtWealthManagement.com (March 25, 2015) In a report published Wednesday, the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association…
PIABA: Federal Action Needed To Stop U.S. Brokerage Firms Misleading Investors About Role As Fiduciaries, Which Firms Deny To Block Arbitration Claims
Advertising Like Doctors, Arbitrating Like Used Car Salesmen: "Huge Disconnect" Seen Between Brokerage Ad Claims and Tactics Used to Fight Aggrieved Investors; SEC and DOL Action Seen as VitallYahoo.…
Warning To Investors On Conflicted Advice: PIABA Study To Show Brokerage Firms Advertise Like Doctors But Arbitrate "like Used Car Salesmen"
Review of 9 Major Brokerage Firms to Show All Claim to Put Customers First and Some Even Claim to Support Fiduciary Duty Standard, But All Deny Any Such Responsibility in Arbitration.InvestorIdeas (…
Wall Street Waging War Against Making Brokers Accountable to Investors, by Susan Antilla
TheStreet (NEW YORK) (March 24, 2014 11:42 PM) -- Wall Street and the political hacks beholden to it have been throwing an extended temper tantrum over a push to raise the standards expected of…
Arbitration Attorneys: Brokerage Firms Cost Investors $17 Billion a Year
Econintersect (March 30, 2015) -- A new report from the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA) charges that brokerage firms bilk investors out of an average of $17 billion dollars a…
Finra's BrokerCheck gets a facelift, by Mason Braswell
Finra makes some information more prominent, but system still doesn't go far enough plaintiffs' attorneys sayInvestmentNews (March 17, 2015 11:18 am) -- As more investors use Finra's BrokerCheck…
PIABA Urges SEC To Weigh CFPB Study Faulting Mandatory Arbitration Agreements
BloombergBusiness (March 10, 2015 4:28 pm) -- As the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is in its fifth year of studying the controversial mandatory arbitration process for investors, the…