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UBS PR Funds Also Bought $1.35 Billion of UBS Underwritten COFINA Bonds in 2007 and 2008

(Nov 2014)

Yesterday in our post "UBS Succumbed to Conflicts and Purchased $1.7 Billion of Employee Retirement System Bonds into its Puerto Rican Municipal bond Funds in 2008", we showed that UBS underwrote $1.7 billion of unmarketable ERS bonds and bought them into the UBS PR Funds in 2008. Today, we show similar conflicts led UBS to underwrite unmarketable 2007 and 2008 Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation (COFINA) bonds and stuff them into the Funds. COFINA issued two series of bonds in 2007...

UBS Succumbed to Conflicts and Purchased $1.7 Billion of Employee Retirement System Bonds into its Puerto Rican Municipal bond Funds in 2008

(Nov 2014)

In today's post we show that UBS underwrote unmarketable Employee Retirement System bonds and bought them into the UBS Funds in 2008. Friday, we'll show similar conflicts led UBS to underwrite unmarketable 2008 COFINA bonds and then stuff them into the UBS Funds.

The Puerto Rican Employee Retirement System was acutely and chronically underfunded. Figure 1 is a plot of the PR funding ratio and the median of the 50 states' funding ratios. The states median funding ratio fluctuated between 80%...

En el 2008, UBS Sucumbe Ante Conflictos y Compra $1.7 Billones en Bonos de la Administración de los Sistemas de Retiro para Colocarlos en sus Fondos de Bonos Municipales de Puerto Rico

(Nov 2014)

En la entrada de hoy mostraremos cómo en el 2008 UBS suscribió bonos inmercadeables de la Administración de los Sistemas de Retiro y luego los compró para colocarlos en Fondos UBS. El viernes mostraremos cómo conflictos similares llevaron a UBS a suscribir bonos inmercadeables de la COFINA para luego colocarlos nuevamente en Fondos UBS.

El sistema de retiro de empleados de Puerto Rico estaba grave y crónicamente sin recursos suficientes para mantener el pago de sus obligaciones. El Gráfico 1...

The Securities and Exchange Commission Sanctions Brokers Over Sale of Puerto Rican Municipal Bonds

(Nov 2014)

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced sanctions today against 13 brokerage firms for selling high risk Puerto Rican municipal bonds in March 2014 in denominations well below the $100,000 minimum specified in the offering circular. The SEC press release with links to the individual orders can be found on the SEC website.

Kyle Glazier and Lynn Hume broke the story about small denomination trades in the Puerto Rico bond offering in contravention of the offering document in the Bond...

Impuestos, Bonos Municipales de Puerto Rico y los Fondos UBS

(Oct 2014)

A la fecha hemos escrito extensamente sobre los fondos de bonos municipales UBS Puerto Rico. Pueden encontrar nuestra más reciente entrada al blog aquí. La singularidad del régimen impositivo de Puerto Rico sigue saliendo a colación y pensamos que una entrada al blog aclarando este asunto vale la pena.

Los residentes de Puerto Rico no pagan impuestos sobre el ingreso al gobierno federal pero pagan altos impuestos sobre el ingreso. Los puertorriqueños pagan una tasa impositiva marginal máxima...

Taxes, Puerto Rico Municipal Bonds and the UBS Funds

(Oct 2014)

We've written extensively about the UBS Puerto Rican Municipal Bond Funds on our blog. Puerto Rico's unique tax regime keeps coming up and we thought it was worth a blog post clearing this matter up.

Puerto Rican residents don't pay federal income tax but do pay very high income taxes. The Puerto Rican maximum marginal income tax rate is 33%, reached at only $50,000 per year of taxable income.

The income on Puerto Rican municipal bonds is exempt from the state income tax that would be paid...

Enforcement Actions: Week in Review - October 17th, 2014

(Oct 2014)

SEC ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

SEC Obtains Summary Judgment Against Defendants in Securities Fraud Involving Biopharmaceutical Company
October 15, 2014 (Litigation Release No. 23114 )
On October 10, the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted the Commission's motion for "summary judgment and for partial summary judgment, respectively, against Defendants Douglas McClain, Sr. ("McClain Sr."), of Fair Oaks, Texas, and Douglas McClain Jr. ("McClain Jr."), formerly of...

Enforcement Actions: Week in Review - October 10th, 2014

(Oct 2014)

SEC ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

SEC Obtains Final Judgment Against Paul T. Mannion, Jr., Andrew S. Reckles, Pef Advisors LLC, and Pef Advisors Ltd.
October 8, 2014 (Litigation Release No. 23108 )
The SEC announced that on September 29, 2014, the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia entered a final judgment against Paul T. Mannion, JR., Andrew S. Reckles, PEF Advisors LLC and PEF Advisors Ltd. The Court found that Mannion and Reckles, co-owners of both PEF Advisors entities, had...

Enforcement Actions: Week in Review - October 3rd, 2014

(Oct 2014)

SEC ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

SEC v. Patrick G. Rooney, John R. Rooney, and Positron Corporation, Civil Action No. 9:14-cv-81224-KAM (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida)
October 3, 2014 (Litigation Release No. 23103)
The SEC announced that on September 30, it had filed a civil injunctive action against Positron Corporation, Patrick Rooney, the company's former CEO and John R. Rooney, a promoter of penny stocks. Positron, a microcap company, as well as Patrick Rooney and...

Enforcement Actions: Week in Review - September 26th, 2014

(Sep 2014)

SEC ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

Court Enters Final Judgments Against CEO and Executive Vice President of Company Involved in Pump-And-Dump Scheme Involving Fictitious Buyout Offer
September 25, 2014 (Litigation Release No. 23092)
The SEC announced that the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered final judgments against Maximilien Arella, CEO, and Ian Morrice, the Executive Vice President, both of Spencer Pharmaceutical Inc. (a microcap pharmaceutical company). Permanent...

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