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UBS Continues to Pay YieldPlus Investors for Losses

August 2, 2022 | by Stoltmann Law Offices

Chicago-based Stoltmann Law Offices is representing investors who’ve suffered losses from investing in options strategies that went wrong. Along those lines, an arbitration panel recently ordered UBS to pay more than $1.4 million to a husband and wife who accused the bank of misrepresenting a complex YES options trading strategy that tanked, according to barrons.com.

“Dozens of investors have filed arbitration claims against UBS for alleged misrepresentations in how the strategy was marketed and implemented. A customer has also filed a lawsuit against the company seeking class action status,” Barrons reported. UBS, which has previously denied the allegations, has won some arbitration cases, but lost others.

Approximately 1,500 customers participated in the YES strategy. Assets invested in YES accounts ballooned to $5.7 billion in December 2018, according to the lawsuit seeking class action status. The strategy suffered substantial losses totaling about $1.2 billion, according to the lawsuit.

UBS Ordered to Pay Investors Back for Damages in YES Strategy Case

November 3, 2021 | by Stoltmann Law Offices

Chicago-based Stoltmann Law Offices has represented investors who’ve suffered investment losses as a result of negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and other violations by UBS Financial Services and its financial advisors.

Recently, FINRA, the U.S. securities industry regulator, ordered UBS to pay more than $800,000 to two couples who had lost money in the company’s YES strategy, according to AdvisorHub.com.Investors Robert and Marcia Shinbrot recovered their full $269,337.09 loss plus prejudgment interest of $45,009.80 while Nicholas and Brigit Trentalange recovered their full $421,868.58 loss plus prejudgment interest of $70,499.93, according to the FINRA award.

Robert Shinbrot and Nicholas Trentalange were business partners in ForwardThink Group, a company acquired for $46 million by tech consulting firm Perficient in 2014. A separate FINRA panel awarded Houston investor Daniel Ferber the full $358,000 in damages he had sought, but denied his requests for interest and fees and costs.

UBS Continues to Face Investor Claims For YES Strategy

September 8, 2020 | by Stoltmann Law Offices

Chicago-based Stoltmann Law Offices continues to investigate investor claims related to UBS YES products. In recent years, with savings yields at rock bottom, investors have been eager to attempt to safely earn a higher return on their money. Wall Street has responded with so-called “yield enhancement strategies” (YES) designed to pump up returns. But these strategies eek out this extra yield by employing extremely risky options trading strategies.

What brokers haven’t told investors in countless pitches, however, is that yield enhancement products are complicated and carry numerous hidden risks. The UBS YES program, involving an “iron condor” options trading plan, has attracted a great deal of attention recently. Investors are suing UBS, the Swiss wealth management firm, claiming they lost money when UBS brokers enrolled them in the strategy. Arbitration claims against the company have also been filed with FINRA, the securities industry regulator.

Investors who invested in the UBS YES program claim they suffered losses, even though the firm claimed the strategy was “conservative” and “low risk,” according to Wealthmanagement.com. What investors apparently were not told is how complex and convoluted the YES strategy was: