Not exact matches
To keep a step ahead of emerging
scams, the Call Center also collaborates with a number of key leaders and community partners including the Attorney General's Office, the Federal Trade Commission, the Washington State Department of
Financial Institutions, the FINRA
Investor Education Foundation, the Washington State Crime Prevention Association, the Better Business Bureau, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
He started
investor town hall meetings, required that more
financial documents be in plain English and fought Internet
scams.
The
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the self regulatory body that oversees Wall Street firms, has an Investor Education Foundation whose aim is to boost financial literacy and warn folks about investme
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the self regulatory body that oversees Wall Street firms, has an
Investor Education Foundation whose aim is to boost
financial literacy and warn folks about investme
financial literacy and warn folks about investment
scams.
Chris Martenson, economic researcher, trend forecaster, The Crash Course author, and founder of Peak Prosperity, discusses the eight forms of capital you need to become resilient to crisis, how the
financial system
scams hapless
investors, and why gold will get much more valuable once the next oil crisis hits.
NFA hosted a free webinar on Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. CT / 12: 00 p.m. ET to educate
investors about how to avoid
financial scams and the importance of conducting thorough due diligence.
Scam artists and unethical advisors will often ask
investors to lie about their personal
financial situation: do not lie about your income or other information.
In addition to the SEC scrutiny, cryptocurrencies have also attracted the attention of the
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), earlier this week after the agency issued a warning to
investors regarding possible cold - calling
scams.
The
financial self - regulatory body warns
investors of risks of cryptocurrency purchases and lists advice to avoid
scams.
Occasionally all
investors get lucky, but doing the due diligence is more important than anything in a
financial space filled with
scams, FUD, and institutional manipulation.
CAP rates are a crummy way to value residential real estate and an equally crummy measure of
financial performance for all of the reasons mentioned above and more... you may disagree, but since the only other person out there that regularly disagreed with you on this was kicked off this site for doing so, and just about every other turnkey operator seem to be in the business of perpetuating it as a metric to try to artificially pump up the attractiveness of their offerings and
scam newbies, please forgive me if I try to offer some counterbalance and perspective to other new
investors who would otherwise not have any other exposure to such radical ideas as using CAP rates the way they were designed to be used by the professionals who use them.