Risk

Lawyers see many reasons for concern when discussing the asset class with investors, but not enough to avoid talking about it and learning about it.

A retired dentist won a huge FINRA arbitration award after accusing his best friend and longtime broker of trading in tech stocks without his consent.

Publicly traded companies exposed to the "crypto winter" and the collapse of FTX or other digital-asset companies might have to disclose those details to investors under new guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Bradley Goodbred allegedly defrauded a widow in her 90s through a real estate investment scheme, the latest example of a rising number of scams targeting seniors.

The push to regulate non-traded REITs lurks behind new concerns about liquidity.

In two FINRA enforcement cases and an arbitration award, wealth management firms are resolving allegations that they breached their duties.

The megabank's traditional brokerage unit has already paid a FINRA arbitration award and five settlements totaling $47.4 million.

Crypto boosters are quick to caution jittery investors that other, better-regulated industries have not been immune to scandals.

Moves by cryptocurrency exchanges to reassure markets about their stability are having little effect on jittery users, who keep pulling funds from the venues.

The founder of the JLL Income Property Trust non-traded REIT thinks real estate deserves a place on advisors' list of alternative investments.