Chasing The Guilty Parties In Securities And Investment Fraud

By Author: Woodrow Stewart
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No one likes to lose money. Let's face it when we entrust our savings to brokers and investment advisors and banks we expect them to safeguard our money and do their best to competently and honestly invest this money in such a way that we see a profit.

While we freely acknowledge that investment is always risky we expect and have a right to demand that if a particularly risky investment is to be undertaken with our funds then we be informed in advance so that we have a say in taking that risk or not.

We also have a right to expect our brokers to be competent. We should be able to rest easy in that our portfolio will be well managed and spread across a number of stock so that the returns will roughly track or better the indices we agreed to when we invested with them. (You might have selected a blue chip only index in which case your growth is likely to be smaller than if you had perhaps selected a Dow Jones, Nasdaq or S&P index. (or in fact some other measure agreed to)

We have the right to expect the broker to be honest and only use our money for legitimate trades and not use it for anything else, ...
... certainly not to languish in his trust account gaining interest for him or for bridging finance or collateral for some other scheme.

Now if you have found that the returns on the investment have not performed as well as you had expected and been led to believe would be the case, or you have lost money then the alarm bells should be ringing! Have you been defrauded? Have you been the victim of incompetent or dishonest dealing. Have you got an action against the investment advisors, the fund managers or the brokers?

It is perfectly possible that there are steps you can take to recover your losses if this has been the case. If you have the slightest doubt about anything in your investment account you should consult security fraud lawyers. They are experts at checking the legitimacy of all the transactions on your account. They have lots of experience and are successful at litigation. They are confident that if there is something not totally legitimate in an investment account and they can detect a cause for action they will pursue it on your behalf.

Backed up by the Financial Industry Registration Authority (FINRA) thy have the muscle and the track record to show success in taking on some of the largest brokerage firms where it could be shown that a clients brokerage accounts were mishandled.

Most disputes are settled in arbitration before FINRA or the NYSE. This is obviously desirable as the actual cost of litigation in the civil courts are very high.

Stock fraud lawyers work on a contingency basis so their consultation is free and so are any court or arbitration costs which will be recovered from any settlement achieved. Consequently it costs nothing to have them check over your situation.

Richard Plyer is a personal finance consultant and real estate investor. For more information on security fraud lawyers, visit http://www.placeandhanley.com. stock fraud lawyers