Posts belonging to Category Peer to Peer Loans
Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 8, 2013
Wall Street’s recent promotion of alternative investments should warrant serious concern among investors. It serves as an unpleasant example of history repeating itself. In the mid-1980s, Wall Street firms became enamored with limited partnerships (a form of alternative investment) that invested in so-called hard assets, paid the firms high commissions and fees, were illiquid and […]
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Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 5, 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged an Illinois-based advisor with selling fictitious securities via social media. Anthony Fields, CPA, doing business as Anthony Fields & Associations and Platinum Securities Brokers offered over $500 billion of phony securities through a variety of social media sites, including using LinkedIn discussions to promote nonexistent “bank guarantees” and […]
Categories: Affinity Fraud, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Crowd Funding, Elder Abuses, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, Peer to Peer Loans, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonOctober 21, 2011
Many investors in alternative investments are in for unpleasant surprises. Alternative investments are very popular these days, as traditional stock and bond investments are not doing well. Alternative Investments include a wide variety of investments that fall outside the traditional stock and bond categories. Examples include structured products (such as principal protected notes and reverse […]
Categories: Alternative Funds, Alternative Investments, Asset Backed Securities, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Derivatives, Elder Abuses, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Hedge Funds, High Yield (Junk) Bonds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Life Policies/Viatical Settlements, Nontraded REITs, Peer to Peer Loans, Preferred Stocks, REITs, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Structured Notes, Tenant-in-Common Interests
Posted by Page PerryonOctober 5, 2011
Investors should use extreme caution before investing in alternative investments. Alternative investments have become the popular “investment du jour” but these investments are fraught with risks. Simply stated, alternative investments are not the panacea that so-called experts represent them to be. For the reasons discussed below, investors need to be very skeptical of any recommendation […]
Categories: Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Closed End Funds, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Default Swaps, Early Retirement Scams, Elder Abuses, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Hedge Funds, High Yield (Junk) Bonds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Nontraded REITs, Peer to Peer Loans, Private Investments/Reg D, Promissory Notes, Regulatory Developments, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Structured Notes, Variable Annuities and Equity-Indexed Annuities
Posted by Page PerryonOctober 5, 2011
Brokers often pitch alternative investments when the stock market is declining and returns on traditionally safe investments are too low. A few alternative investments may have some merit. Many more are flawed, bad and ugly in that they provide investors little more than uncompensated high risk. Then there are those that cross the line into […]
Categories: A General Overview, Alternative Investments, Bonds, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Fairness/Just & Equitable Conduct, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, Life Policies/Viatical Settlements, Misrepresentation/Omission, Peer to Peer Loans, Ponzi Schemes, Private Investments/Reg D, Promissory Notes, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonAugust 26, 2011
The association of state securities regulators known as NASAA has released its top 10 investment traps. NASAA finds that scam artists are peddling various get-rich-quick schemes to take advantage of the economic uncertainty. According to NASAA, investments that investors should be particularly wary of include distressed real estate schemes, energy investments, gold and precious metal […]
Categories: Affinity Fraud, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Early Retirement Scams, Elder Abuses, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Life Policies/Viatical Settlements, Nontraded REITs, Peer to Peer Loans, Ponzi Schemes, Private Investments/Reg D, Promissory Notes, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Tenant-in-Common Interests
Posted by Page PerryonFebruary 20, 2011
So-called peer-to-peer online lending first became possible in the United States five years ago, but if you are considering investing money as a lender, it would be wise to wait a couple of years to see how existing lenders fared, according to Ron Lieber’s New York Times article, “The Gamble of Lending Peer to Peer.”
Categories: Investment Advisers, Market Developments, Peer to Peer Loans, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 23, 2011
The Securities Exchange Commission in cooperation with the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) have issued warnings to investors about the risks of peer-to-peer lending via the Web. In the current economic environment where it is often difficult to obtain a conventional loan from banks, peer-to-peer lending or P2P, has become popular. Peer-to-peer lending allows […]
Categories: Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Peer to Peer Loans, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation