Aaron Cohn

July 19, 2024 | Daily Business Review

As one fraudulent dealer is shut down, more "moles" appear in its wake. Understaffed and underfunded, the agency simply does not have enough mallets to stop the spread of precious metals fraud.

By Aaron Cohn

5 minute read

March 25, 2024 | Daily Business Review

These changes are bound to shake up compensation in an industry that, at times, seemed anti-competitive—particularly in high value markets where the commissions grew increasingly large for the same services.

By Aaron Cohn

7 minute read

March 08, 2023 | Daily Business Review

In one of the most significant enforcement matters pursued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in recent times, a federal judge has approved a settlement requiring a group of defendants to pay millions in restitution to victims of a leveraged precious metals trading program.

By Aaron Cohn

5 minute read

December 28, 2022 | Daily Business Review

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article on the high arbitration costs associated with recovering losses from investment advisers. The crux of Jason Zweig's article was captured in its subheading—"Battling with a financial adviser who has wronged you is wildly expensive—and the fight will almost certainly happen in secret. That needs to change."

By Aaron Cohn

5 minute read

October 18, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Historically, South Florida has been a hotbed of precious metal investment frauds including unregistered retail investment firms pushing off-exchange, leveraged precious metal investments.

By Aaron Cohn

7 minute read

August 19, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Some of my clients have been completely devastated by frauds committed by precious metals brokers. Others have just lost a lot of money.

By Aaron Cohn

6 minute read

June 23, 2022 | Daily Business Review

These types of socially engineered hacks are happening at an alarming rate, and the crypto brokers are well aware of the problem because they are on the front lines of the complaints generated by their customers.

By Aaron Cohn

5 minute read

March 10, 2021 | Daily Business Review

For construction site accidents, personal injury damage issues are layered on top of the many complications of litigating construction claims to determine liability.

By Aaron Cohn and Steven Gonzalez

7 minute read

August 26, 2014 | Daily Business Review

Many companies in need of working capital, often young, growing companies without access to traditional credit, find alternative financing by factoring their accounts receivable, which involves the sale or assignment of the company's receivables to a lending company in exchange for providing capital.

By Aaron Cohn

5 minute read