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                <title><![CDATA[Another Win for Ubs Yield Enhancement Strategy (yes) Customers, Third Award in 2021]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p>On August 23, 2021, a FINRA Dispute Resolution Services arbitration panel in Baltimore, Maryland, ordered UBS Financial Services, Inc. (“UBS”) to pay $405,000 to customers who invested in UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy (“YES”). The award included $300,000 in compensatory damages, $30,000 in costs, and $75,000 in attorneys’ fees. The customers alleged that UBS and broker&hellip;</p>
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                <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>On August 23, 2021, a FINRA Dispute Resolution Services arbitration panel in Baltimore, Maryland, ordered UBS Financial Services, Inc. (“UBS”) to pay $405,000 to customers who invested in UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy (“YES”). The award included $300,000 in compensatory damages, $30,000 in costs, and $75,000 in attorneys’ fees. The customers alleged that UBS and broker Adam Rogers misrepresented UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy, a complex and highly risky options strategy, as a way to obtain marginally higher yield on a portfolio while taking limited risks. In actuality, the complexity and nature of YES exposed the Claimants to a significant risk of loss. The Claimants also alleged that UBS and its team of options traders conducted the YES program with virtually no supervision or compliance oversight and with inadequate risk controls.</p>
 <p>This order is the third arbitration award against UBS in 2021 concerning YES and the fourth since December 2020. On March 31, 2021, a FINRA arbitration panel in Columbus, Ohio, <a href="/blog/another-win-for-ubs-yield-enhancement-strategy-yes-customers-second-award-in-march-2021/">ordered UBS</a> to pay customers over $372,000 in compensatory damages and fees. Earlier in the month, on March 5, 2021, another FINRA arbitration panel in Denver, Colorado, <a href="/blog/ubs-ordered-to-pay-1-million-to-yield-enhancement-strategy-yes-customers/">ordered UBS</a> to pay customers over $1 million in compensatory damages. In December 2020, a FINRA arbitration panel in Boca Raton, Florida, <a href="/blog/ubs-ordered-to-pay-90000-to-yield-enhancement-strategy-customer/">awarded a customer</a> nearly $90,000.</p>
 <p>UBS has faced numerous lawsuits from customers in the form of FINRA securities arbitrations related to YES, a complex managed options strategy that UBS marketed as safe and market-neutral. The customers have claimed that the strategy was not suitable for them and that UBS materially misrepresented and omitted the risks of the strategy.</p>
 <p>Investors who have suffered investment losses due to UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy should contact experienced securities arbitration attorneys at Iorio Altamirano LLP for a free and confidential case evaluation. Partner <a href="/august-m-iorio/">August Iorio</a>, who has been investigating YES for over two years, can be reached at <a href="mailto:august@ia-law.com">august@ia-law.com</a> or toll-free at <strong>(646) 330-4624</strong>.</p>
 <h2 class="wp-block-heading">UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy</h2>
 <p>UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy is a complex managed options strategy that UBS marketed as a safe, market-neutral overlay that would provide incremental returns to an investor’s portfolio.</p>
 <p>UBS’s brokers sold this product to customers across the country. It is believed that nearly 1,500 customers chose to follow their financial advisors’ recommendations and implement this strategy. The strategy reportedly had approximately $6 billion assets under management.</p>
 <p>Unfortunately, many UBS financial advisors did not adequately understand the product and failed to disclose the risk associated with YES. Investors have complained that they were misled and that their financial advisors never discussed the downside risk associated with implementing the strategy.</p>
 <p>The strategy, which involved several options trades and borrowing, has sustained significant losses when the stock and bond markets saw an increase in volatility beginning in early 2018. It is believed that investors have suffered at least $75 million in losses, likely significantly more.</p>
 <h2 class="wp-block-heading">UBS Yield Enhancement Strategy: How to Recover Losses</h2>
 <p>When an investor suffers investment losses due to misconduct by a financial advisor or broker-dealer, the investor can file a securities arbitration claim against their financial advisor and/or broker-dealer in an effort to be compensated. The case will be presented and defended in a FINRA arbitration proceeding to a panel of arbitrators.</p>
 <p><a href="/securities-arbitration/">Securities arbitration</a> is a unique and complex practice area. Investors should seek out experienced counsel who can navigate the arbitration process and effectively advocate on their behalf.</p>
 <p>Iorio Altamirano LLP is a securities arbitration law firm located in the heart of New York City. Iorio Altamirano LLP represents investors <strong><em>nationwide</em></strong> who have suffered investment losses due to securities fraud.</p>
 <p>We have nearly 20 years of combined experience as securities arbitration lawyers and have helped investors recover investment losses in over 1000 cases.</p>
 <p>If you suffered losses from investing in UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy, contact New York securities arbitration lawyer <a href="/august-m-iorio/"><strong>August Iorio</strong></a> of Iorio Altamirano LLP. August Iorio can be reached at <a href="mailto:august@ia-law.com"><strong>august@ia-law.com</strong></a> or toll-free at <strong>(646) 330-4624</strong> for a free and confidential review of your account.</p>
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                <title><![CDATA[Another Win for Ubs Yield Enhancement Strategy (yes) Customers, Second Award in March 2021]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p>On March 31, 2021, a FINRA Dispute Resolution Services arbitration panel in Columbus, Ohio, ordered UBS Financial Services, Inc. (“UBS”) to pay customers over $372,000 in compensatory damages and fees. The claimants, Matthew and Lisa Fisher alleged that UBS and brokers Ortal Shachar and Richard Mark Held presented the Yield Enhancement Strategy (“YES”), an options&hellip;</p>
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                <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>On March 31, 2021, a FINRA Dispute Resolution Services arbitration panel in Columbus, Ohio, ordered UBS Financial Services, Inc. (“UBS”) to pay customers over $372,000 in compensatory damages and fees. The claimants, Matthew and Lisa Fisher alleged that UBS and brokers Ortal Shachar and Richard Mark Held presented the Yield Enhancement Strategy (“YES”), an options strategy, as low risk. In actuality, the complexity and nature of YES exposed the Claimants to a significant risk of loss.</p>
 <p>This order is the second arbitration award against UBS in March 2021 concerning YES and the third since December 2020. On March 5, 2021, another FINRA arbitration panel in Denver, Colorado, <a href="/blog/ubs-ordered-to-pay-1-million-to-yield-enhancement-strategy-yes-customers/">ordered UBS</a> to pay customers over $1 million in compensatory damages. In December 2020, a FINRA arbitration panel in Boca Raton, Florida, <a href="/blog/ubs-ordered-to-pay-90000-to-yield-enhancement-strategy-customer/">awarded a customer</a> nearly $90,000.</p>
 <p>UBS has faced numerous lawsuits from customers in the form of FINRA securities arbitrations related to YES, a complex managed options strategy that UBS marketed as safe and market-neutral. The customers have claimed that the strategy was not suitable for them and that UBS materially misrepresented and omitted the risks of the strategy.</p>
 <p>Investors who have suffered investment losses due to UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy should contact experienced securities arbitration attorneys at Iorio Altamirano LLP for a free and confidential case evaluation. Partner <a href="/august-m-iorio/">August Iorio</a>, who has been investigating YES for over two years, can be reached at <a href="mailto:august@ia-law.com">august@ia-law.com</a> or toll-free at <strong>(646) 330-4624</strong>.</p>
 <h2 class="wp-block-heading">UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy</h2>
 <p>UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy is a complex managed options strategy that UBS marketed as a safe, market-neutral overlay that would provide incremental returns to an investor’s portfolio.</p>
 <p>UBS brokers sold this product to customers across the country. It is believed that nearly 1,500 customers chose to follow their financial advisors’ recommendations and implement this strategy. The strategy reportedly had approximately $6 billion assets under management.</p>
 <p>Unfortunately, many UBS financial advisors did not adequately understand the product and failed to disclose the risk associated with YES. Investors have complained that they were misled and that their financial advisors never discussed the downside risk associated with implementing the strategy.</p>
 <p>The strategy, which involved several options trades and borrowing, has sustained significant losses when the stock and bond markets saw an increase in volatility beginning in early 2018. It is believed that investors have suffered at least $75 million in losses, likely significantly more.</p>
 <h2 class="wp-block-heading">UBS Yield Enhancement Strategy: How to Recover Losses</h2>
 <p>When an investor suffers investment losses due to misconduct by a financial advisor or broker-dealer, the investor can file a securities arbitration claim against their financial advisor and/or broker-dealer in an effort to be compensated. The case will be presented and defended in a FINRA arbitration proceeding to a panel of arbitrators.</p>
 <p><a href="/securities-arbitration/">Securities arbitration</a> is a unique and complex practice area. Investors should seek out experienced counsel who can navigate the arbitration process and effectively advocate on their behalf.</p>
 <p>Iorio Altamirano LLP is a securities arbitration law firm located in the heart of New York City. Iorio Altamirano LLP represents investors <strong><em>nationwide</em></strong> who have suffered investment losses due to securities fraud.</p>
 <p>We have nearly 20 years of combined experience as securities arbitration lawyers and have helped investors recover investment losses in over 1000 cases.</p>
 <p>If you suffered losses from investing in UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy, contact New York securities arbitration lawyer <a href="/august-m-iorio/"><strong>August Iorio</strong></a> of Iorio Altamirano LLP. August Iorio can be reached at <a href="mailto:august@ia-law.com"><strong>august@ia-law.com</strong></a> or toll-free at <strong>(646) 330-4624</strong> for a free and confidential review of your account.</p>
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                <title><![CDATA[Ubs Profits Double as Investors in Ubs’s Yield Enhancement Strategy Suffer Losses]]></title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:07:09 GMT</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[<p>Today, UBS Group AG announced that its net profit almost doubled in the third quarter to nearly $2.1 billion from $1.05 billion from a year earlier. Meanwhile, as UBS and other large investment banking firms continue to rake in huge profits, UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy investors continue to suffer avoidable losses. UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy,&hellip;</p>
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                <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>Today, UBS Group AG announced that its net profit almost doubled in the third quarter to nearly $2.1 billion from $1.05 billion from a year earlier.</p>
 <p>Meanwhile, as UBS and other large investment banking firms continue to rake in huge profits, UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy investors continue to suffer avoidable losses.</p>
 <p>UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy, or YES, is a complex managed options strategy that UBS marketed as a safe, market-neutral overlay that would provide incremental returns to an investor’s portfolio.</p>
 <p>UBS brokers sold this product to customers across the country. It is believed that nearly 1,500 customers chose to follow their financial advisors’ recommendations and implement this strategy. The strategy reportedly had approximately $6 billion assets under management.</p>
 <p>Unfortunately, many UBS financial advisors did not adequately understand the product and failed to disclose the risk associated with YES. Investors have complained that they were misled and that their financial advisors never discussed the downside risk associated with implementing the strategy.</p>
 <p>The strategy, which involved the use of several options trades and borrowing, has sustained significant losses when the stock and bond markets saw an increase in volatility beginning in early 2018. It is believed that investors have suffered at least $75 million in losses, likely significantly more.</p>
 <p>Many of these aggrieved investors have filed lawsuits against UBS in the form of FINRA arbitrations claiming that the strategy was not <a href="/suitability-best-interest/">suitable</a> for them and that UBS materially <a href="/misrepresentations-and-omissions/">misrepresented and omitted</a> the risks associated with the product.</p>
 <p>Investors who have suffered investment losses due to UBS’s Yield Enhancement Strategy should contact experienced securities arbitration attorneys at Iorio Altamirano LLP for a free and confidential case evaluation. Partner <a href="/august-m-iorio/">August Iorio</a> can be reached at <a href="mailto:august@ia-law.com">august@ia-law.com</a> or toll-free at <strong>(646) 330-4624</strong>.</p>
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