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Arbitration Favors Firms Over Investors

Let's say you had $50,000 in auction-rate securities that your broker said were as safe as money-market funds. The market collapsed, and you sold at an 80 percent haircut. At your arbitration hearing, one of the three panel members works at a firm that also sold auction-rates deceptively. How fair...
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By Jane Bryant Quinn