Investor Protector

03/11/2018

If you think for a moment that your bank’s financial advisors are working in your best interest, I ask that you read this short article and then click on the YouTube link for a short video.

02/24/2018

Is your so-called financial advisor nothing more than a well trained deceptive salesperson? Always remember to protect your hard earned life’s work by audiotaping all conversations with your financial services firm.

Beware - discount brokers have sales incentive programs to encourage their employees to get customers to invest in higher fee programs and products.

02/17/2018

Annuities are some of the most deceptively marketed financial products in the financial services industry. If your so-called financial advisor recommends an annuity for you and your family and does not disclose in writing the precise hidden commissions they receive and the surrender period you must except, you have been ripped off.

By Kathleen McBride, AIFA® Insurance lobby groups are howling again at proposed state regulations on annuities that require the best interests of the

02/10/2018

The financial services industry is filled with people trained to deceive you in exchange for a commission. The industry is also filled with unethical lawyers and pages of fine print and deceptive terms to make sure that their Shell Game goes unpunished. Level the playing field by audiotaping all conversations with your financial firm.

In the shell game, three or more identical containers (which may be cups, shells, bottle caps, or anything else) are placed face-down on a surface. A small ball is placed beneath one of these containers so that it cannot be seen, and they are then shuffled by the operator in plain view. One or more....

02/04/2018

Many people in the financial services industry are nothing more than trained sales personnel posing as financial advisers. If you are not audiotaping your conversations with these individuals, you are putting your hard earned life’s work in extreme peril.

Good financial advice can help you achieve your life goals. Bad financial advice can cost you a fortune and leave you worse off than if you had tried to go…

11/24/2017

Wall Street firms rigging the Municipal Bond Market and ripping off our country on a daily basis.

How America's biggest banks took part in a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy - until they were caught on tape

10/25/2017

Every one of these lawmakers need to be voted out of office in their next election cycle for protecting their buddies on Wall Street instead of the American people.

“How horrible, how horrible that people might have the ability to come together and hire a lawyer," Sen. Chuck Schumer says after the vote.

09/20/2017

Exposing a little bit more of the Rigged game on Wall Street.

What a decade-old dot-com I.P.O. case says about Wall Street today.

09/17/2017

Wall Street crooks & their lobbyists are working harder than ever to try to steal your retirement savings. Please notice the big name companies working against your best interests.

The New York Times has an article today exposing the false and misleading assault by Wall St on the Fiduciary Rule a rule which requires that

08/13/2017

Why not rip off our Veterans? They haven't done anything to make our country a better place. Wells Fargo is a disgraceful company.

The nation’s largest VA lender has settled an 11-year-old lawsuit that claims it overcharged military vets for mortgages

08/06/2017

If you get ripped off by your financial firm you cannot take your claim to a court of law. What happens on Wall Street stays on Wall Street.

Forced arbitration can circumvent legal rights, but Finra’s version of arbitration comes with an additional dollop of what seems like bias.

07/30/2017

There is a simple reason why many of the large financial services companies continually deceive their customers. Nobody ever goes to prison.

New revelations that Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) spent years enrolling unknowing borrowers in costly auto insurance has put the bank under new pressure to answer for a months-long scandal over sales practices that have harmed millions of Americans.