A Phoenix-based company is tangled in a Massachusetts securities investigation in which regulators slapped a large brokerage with a lawsuit last week, claiming dishonest and unethical business practices in dealing with real estate investment trusts…

Cornerstone Real Estate Investment Funds sold through Pacific Cornerstone Capital Inc. have joined other REITs in experiencing a drastic drop in value in recent months. The White Law Firm in Chicago is investigating the broker-dealers who sold the Cornerstone shares…

Advisors with clients who want to move money into real estate investments known as tenant-in-common offerings under section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code need to be wary…

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association wants Finra to crack down on deadbeat brokers who have failed to pay back promissory notes…

TD Ameritrade Inc. has been hit with an $8 million arbitration claim by a group of options traders who say they lost money last summer during final integration of the thinkorswim trading platform…

Beware nontraded real estate investment trusts. That advice was issued early this month by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the nongovernmental regulator of securities firms…