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	<title>Investor Watchdog - Finance Education &#187; Bad Financial Advice</title>
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		<title>Advisor Admits Fraud-Employed at a Trusted Wall Street Firm!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Chen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Financial Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Report Fraud]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This type of action continues to show all of us that the responsibility of qualifying a competent and trusted Advisor to work with still resides with the individual. The investor needs to educate themselves on how to decide on what type of advisor to work with. Investors need to ask questions, review certifications, review investment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Investment Scams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Waymire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Financial Advice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bad annuities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad mutual funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank investment products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illegal Investment Scams]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Legal Investment Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ponzi Schemes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You have read hundreds of stories describing Ponzi schemes and other illegal investment scams. But, investor losses from those scams are a drop in the bucket compared to legal investment scams.
Legal scams are perpetrated by unscrupulous, licensed advisors who deliberately sell bad investment products that benefit them or their companies. An example of a bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insurance to Investment Scam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Chen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Financial Advice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deceptive Sales Practices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended a continuing education seminar for insurance and securities licensed representatives and happen to be sitting at a table with a group of insurance salesman turned investment advisor. During the CE session as well as lunch, a group of them from the same office happen to talk about their latest and very successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Max Tailwager: America&#8217;s Top Financial Planner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Arndt, CFA, CPA, CFP</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Financial Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investor Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Who Can I Trust?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allan Roth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial advisor certification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misleading investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top financial planners]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Allan Roth, author of How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street, is the proud owner of Max Tailwager, a dachshund puppy and a 2009 recipient of the America&#8217;s Top Financial Planners award bestowed by the Consumers&#8217; Research Council of America.
Roth received a letter in the mail from SLD Industries, informing him that he was named [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adviser Scare Tactics: Bad-Mouthing the Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.investorwatchdog.com/adviser-scare-tactics-bad-mouthing-the-competition</link>
		<comments>http://www.investorwatchdog.com/adviser-scare-tactics-bad-mouthing-the-competition#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Arndt, CFA, CPA, CFP</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Who Can I Trust?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a consequence of the recent financial turmoil, many investors have lost untold sums and are considering shifting assets away from advisers they perceive to be incompetent and negligent.&#160; Knowing this, some advisers are resorting to disgraceful scare tactics to hang onto their clients.&#160; Detailed in Brokers Using Scare Tactics To Badmouth Advisor, brokers afraid [...]]]></description>
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