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    Investment Fraud: How Financial “Experts” Rip You Off And What To Do About It: Financial Freedom for Smart People
    Investment Fraud: How Financial “Experts” Rip You Off And What To Do About It: Financial Freedom for Smart People
    Investment Fraud: How Financial “Experts” Rip You Off And What To Do About It: Financial Freedom for Smart People
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    Investment Fraud: How Financial “Experts” Rip You Off And What To Do About It: Financial Freedom for Smart People

    By Todd Tresidder

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    Either you discover how investment fraud works or you become a victim.

    It's easy to think it will never happen to you, but financial fraud is so common that the opposite is likely true.

    Financial "experts" scam the rich, the poor, the naïve, and the experienced. Nobody is immune. If you invest, then it's a near certainty that you'll run into investment fraud. You must know how to recognize and avoid it or else pay the price.

    In just one evening you'll discover:

    • A 15-question test to determine your risk for becoming the next investment fraud victim.
    • The top 26 warning signs that your investment may be a scam.
    • 16 investment frauds you can easily avoid if you just know how to recognize them.
    • The 11 ways stockbrokers steal from you.
    • The underhanded methods Wall Street uses to take money from your investment account without you knowing—and it's all 100% legal.
    • A step-by-step due diligence checklist for preventing investment fraud. No more guessing or fumbling.
    • Contact information and action steps if you ever become a victim.
    • And much more.

    Don't become a victim of investment fraud. Prevention is the best defense and this book will show you how. It's easily read in one evening and the insights will pay you dividends for a lifetime.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTodd R. Tresidder
    Release dateAug 13, 2012
    ISBN9780982289143
    Investment Fraud: How Financial “Experts” Rip You Off And What To Do About It: Financial Freedom for Smart People

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      Investment Fraud - Todd Tresidder

      Foreword

      Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

      Albert Einstein

      Financial information is just like Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Too much. Too complicated. Too confusing. It is seldom just right.

      • Too Short: The Internet is filled with sound-bite-length half-truths forcing you to waste hours searching repetitive and contradictory articles to uncover the whole truth.

      • Too Long: The bookstores are filled with hundred-page tomes padded with fluff chapters like A Brief History of the Financial Markets and What Is a Stock? when all you need is 10 pages of concrete ideas you can put to use.

      • Too Simple: The financial content mills produce reams of articles for magazines and web sites written by professional writers who aren’t financial experts and lack practical experience.

      • Too Complicated: Academic journals have great research, but it’s written in an inaccessible style using financial geek-speak so that only a trained expert can decipher the encrypted meaning.

      These problems are why I wrote the 60 Minute Financial Solutions series of ebooks.

      Each ebook provides a concise, definitive answer to an essential financial question that you will inevitably confront on your path to financial security. Each ebook is a one-stop solution to a single financial issue so you learn exactly what you need to know, when you need to know it.

      What you get with each ebook is the distillation of everything that is valid and the elimination of everything that is not. The goal is to simplify without oversimplifying so you can make an independent, intelligent, and appropriate financial decision—in about 60 minutes.

      Best of all, these books are written by a genuine financial expert. I was trained as an economist and I’ve published in the academic world. I also refined my practical knowledge as a hedge fund¹ investment manager for more than a decade with 100% winning years (except one small loss of less than 3%). I now work as an educator coaching people just like you to achieve their financial goals.

      In short, I’ve spent a lifetime mastering personal finance and investing so you don’t have to, and I’ve condensed all that experience into this solution-oriented series of ebooks. The stuff that works is in these books, and it’s provided in straightforward language to make it as accessible as possible.

      The goal is to empower you with the knowledge necessary to take charge of your finances and achieve your goals. Personal finance doesn’t have to be complicated. I’ve taught many others and I can teach you as well. Financial security really is possible if you just know what you are doing and take the right actions.

      All you need is the right information—not too much, not too little, not too simple, not too complicated—just the right stuff.

      If this book delivers on its promise, please let me know with a favorable review so I can thank you. If it doesn’t, please write me at todd@financialmentor.com so I can send you a refund and correct any potential problem.

      Thanks for your support!

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      A Brief Note About Reader Level And Defining Terms

      No financial education book can perfectly address every reader’s needs. After all, each of us brings a different experience base and level of financial sophistication to the written page.

      In other words, what is complicated to one person is oversimplified to the next making writing for a wide audience difficult.

      In an effort to maintain brevity and respect all readers needs I’ve assumed base level financial sophistication and chosen to not define every financial term contextually.

      Instead, less familiar terms are defined in the endnotes at the back and linked within the text. That way advanced readers aren’t confronted with unnecessary definitions that distract the flow of writing while readers newer to the subject can easily resolve any confusion by following the links to find terms requiring greater explanation.

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      Introduction

      It’s not the return on my principal that worries me; it’s the return of my principal.

      Will Rogers

      Every year, investors just like you lose hundreds of millions of dollars to investment fraud. Con artists scam the rich, the poor, the naïve, and the experienced. Nobody is immune. Investment fraud steals from widows, young couples, senior citizens, and highly paid professionals. If you have money and are willing to invest, then you are a potential target for investment fraud.

      This may sound alarmist but it’s not. Even I was surprised at how common investment fraud was when I began working with the public as a financial coach. I helped many clients save five figure and six figure sums applying the exact information you are about to read in this book.

      The truth is investment fraud preys on financial ignorance, and the antidote to ignorance is education. An educated consumer is the con man’s greatest fear. The front line of defense against investment fraud is your own due diligence² and skepticism when evaluating investments.

      It may be an old, worn cliché, but, An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is actually timeless wisdom. In fact, it is an essential truth in the world of investment fraud.

      My goal with this book is to provide you with the necessary education so that you know how to prevent investment fraud from ever reaching your portfolio. Forewarned is forearmed!

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      Are You Vulnerable To Investment Fraud?

      Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

      Jonathan Swift

      Let’s begin with a

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