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Top 10 investment alerts for 2011
Affinity fraud • When someone abuses membership or association with an identifiable group to convince a potential investor to trust the legitimacy of the investment.
Inverse and leveraged ETFs • Exchange-traded funds that offer leverage or that are designed to perform inversely to the index or benchmark they track — or both.
FOREX trading programs • Involves foreign currency exchange markets in which the value of one nation’s currency, as compared with another currency, fluctuates on a continuous basis.
Structured investment products • Securities derived from or based on a single security, a basket of securities, an index, a commodity, a debt issuance and/or a foreign currency.
Promissory notes • Offered to retail investors, they carry significant risk. When investing, higher returns are accompanied by a proportionate amount of risk.
Start-up companies on the verge of “going public” • The lure of getting in on the “ground floor” of a hot startup business is a classic temptation for investors.
Investment pools purchasing nonperforming loans • Despite the ads on late-night TV and the Internet, or the stories told during seminars and sales pitches, turning a profit on nonperforming loans is complicated and difficult.
Automatic trading software packages • Employ due diligence on those selling the programs or promoting them to ensure you are dealing with licensed professionals.
Iraqi dinars • The likelihood of investors seeing any return on their dinars is slim to none.
Unsuitable variable annuity sales practices • Aggressive marketing of variable annuity insurance products are a concern, especially when seniors are targeted.
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