Articles Posted in Conflict of Interest

On March 19, 2013, a former employee of Fidelity Investments filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Boston, Massachusetts against her former employer alleging self-dealing with respect to the management of the FMR LLC Profit Sharing Plan, Fidelity’s 401(k) plan.  In September, twenty-six additional current and former Fidelity employees…

September 18, 2013 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Shadron Stastney, a partner at a New York based hedge fund, Vicis Capital, LLC with breaching his fiduciary duties by engaging in undisclosed principal transactions in which he had a personal financial interest. A principal transaction occurs when a registered…