{"id":2886,"date":"2015-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverlaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/legal-investigations-follow-sec-risk-alert-regarding-oil-gas-investments\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T12:40:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:40:34","slug":"legal-investigations-follow-sec-risk-alert-regarding-oil-gas-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/legal-investigations-follow-sec-risk-alert-regarding-oil-gas-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Investigations Follow SEC Risk Alert Regarding Oil &#038; Gas Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2131 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Legal-Investigations-Follow-SEC-Risk-Alert-Regarding-Oil-Gas-Investments-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Legal Investigations Follow SEC Risk Alert Regarding Oil &amp; Gas Investments on silverlaw.com\" width=\"466\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Legal-Investigations-Follow-SEC-Risk-Alert-Regarding-Oil-Gas-Investments-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Legal-Investigations-Follow-SEC-Risk-Alert-Regarding-Oil-Gas-Investments-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Bank-issued structured notes under scrutiny after sustained losses over a 2 year period<\/h2>\n<p>A risk alert issued in August by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has prompted legal investigations into potential claims by investors. In its alert, the SEC announced it had analyzed 26,600 structured product transactions that equaled $1.25 billion, finding numerous instances where investments were made that were unsuitable for investors\u2019 objectives and needs.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the SEC found that the brokerage firms involved followed weak and insufficient supervisory procedures, especially in their supervision of sales of structured products. Of interest in the legal investigation are structured notes linked to oil and gas prices issued by the following firms, among others:<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/legal-investigations-follow-sec-risk-alert-regarding-oil-gas-investments\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Legal Investigations Follow SEC Risk Alert Regarding Oil &#038; Gas Investments\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank-issued structured notes under scrutiny after sustained losses over a 2 year period A risk alert issued in August by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has prompted legal investigations into potential claims by investors. In its alert, the SEC announced it had analyzed 26,600 structured product transactions that equaled $1.25 billion, finding numerous instances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[578,583],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-releases","category-sec-actions","tag-sec-risk-alert"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Legal Investigations Follow SEC Risk Alert Regarding Oil &amp; Gas Investments &#8212; Securities Arbitration Lawyers Blog &#8212; October 24, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the new article on Legal Investigations Follow SEC Risk Alert Regarding Oil &amp; Gas Investments on silverlaw.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/legal-investigations-follow-sec-risk-alert-regarding-oil-gas-investments\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Legal Investigations Follow SEC Risk Alert Regarding Oil &amp; 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