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Panel awards $3.8m to ‘mom and pop’ investors whose risky investments tanked

Florida investors featured in Guardian investigation claimed they lost most of their life savings after a financial adviser put their money into ‘alternative’ assets In a victory for everyday investors, arbitrators have awarded $3.8m to 13 Florida seniors who claimed a financial adviser squandered their retirement money by plowing it into risky investments. The award comes after the Guardian highlighted these investors’ losses as part of an investigation into dangers that so-called “mom and pop” investors face at a time when the Trump administration has thrown its support behind Wall Street’s efforts to sell them more higher-risk “alternative investments”. Many of the investors claimed they had lost most of their life savings after the adviser put them into “structured products” – a risky combination of bonds and derivatives that regulators have flagged as requiring “heightened supervision” by brokerage firms. An arbitration panel with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) ruled last week that three financial firms – Charles Schwab & Co, TD Ameritrade Clearing Inc, and TD Ameritrade Inc – should compensate the Florida investors, who had a

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Panel awards $3.8m to ‘mom and pop’ investors whose risky investments tanked

Florida investors featured in Guardian investigation claimed they lost most of their life savings after a financial adviser put their money into ‘alternative’ assets In a victory for everyday investors, arbitrators…

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Two special election victories in Florida provided more evidence that the Democratic success in elections since Donald Trump’s return to the White House rests not just on a motivated base but also on winning over Republicans and…

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T2 · Outlet reportBBCMar 25, 2026

Democrats are projected to win a special election for a Florida legislative district that includes Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, marking another upset in the president's backyard. Democrat Emily Gregory, a first-time…

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President Donald Trump voted in Tuesday’s Florida state House special election by mail even as he suggested on Monday that “mail-in voting means mail-in cheating.” “You know, brought to my attention today that we’re the only…

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