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Blackstone Yesterday Resurrected a BREIT Misrepresentation We Had Killed Off

(May 2025)

By Craig McCann and Regina Meng

Introduction

Each month we review BREIT's Performance webpage to see what NAV it claims for the prior month end. After two years' absence, a grossly misleading graphic reappeared yesterday. In fact, Blackstone has made this renewed misrepresentation even worse.

Two and a half years ago, we started a series of posts outlining problems with BREIT.

In December 2022, we predicted a run on BREIT and then in April 2023 we identified 7 major areas in which we...

Why Would Anybody Invest Even $1 in this QDM International Offering - or with these Underwriters?

(Apr 2025)

By Craig McCann and Mike Yan

You can download a copy of this note to print or email here.

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Introduction

In March 2024, we documented that Aegis Capital was systematically underwriting spectacularly failing nano-cap stocks. We concluded that investors, including many Aegis' retail customers, suffered $3.0 billion to $5 billion in losses in recent years as a result of Aegis' conduct. You can read that post, Aegis Capital is Farm-to-Table Securities Fraud Purveyor, Harming Investors at...

These 100 Auto-callable Notes Lost $1 Billion

(Mar 2025)

By Craig McCann and Mike Yan

Last March, we posted four short articles on auto-callable structured products.

In Autocallables 2024 (March 25, 2024) we noted that $122 billion of auto-callable structured products had been sold in the prior 4 years, mostly issued by UBS, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley. You can read that post here.

In Autocallables 2024 Part II: Lucid-linked Notes (March 26, 2024) we illustrated features of autocallables using five notes...

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