By: Matthew Arndt, CFA, CPA, CFP | June 22, 2009 | Bad Financial Advice, Who Can I Trust?

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.  Knowing this, some advisers are resorting to disgraceful scare tactics to hang onto their clients.  Detailed in Brokers Using Scare Tactics To Badmouth Advisor, brokers afraid [...]

By: Jack WaymirecloseAuthor: Jack Waymire Name: Jack Waymire
Email: jack@paladinregistry.com
Site: http://paladinregistry.com
About: Jack writes for the InvestorWatchdog website and Worth magazine. He worked in the financial services industry from 1976 to 2004. For twenty of those years he was the president of a Registered Investment Advisory firm and a Broker/Dealer. Jack is the author of Who's Watching Your Money? The 17 Paladin Principles for Selecting a Financial Advisor and is a co-founder of PaladinRegistry.com.See Authors Posts (87) | March 16, 2009 | Illegal Schemes & Scams, Report Fraud, Wall Street Ethics

Rep. Manzullo gets the chance to ask the same question that all taxpayers are asking as of yesterday when we heard of the AIG bonuses that were going to be paid to the ‘leadership’ teams that ran the company into the ground last year!!! Priceless! You almost feel sorry for the Bailout Czar, [...]

By: Jack WaymirecloseAuthor: Jack Waymire Name: Jack Waymire
Email: jack@paladinregistry.com
Site: http://paladinregistry.com
About: Jack writes for the InvestorWatchdog website and Worth magazine. He worked in the financial services industry from 1976 to 2004. For twenty of those years he was the president of a Registered Investment Advisory firm and a Broker/Dealer. Jack is the author of Who's Watching Your Money? The 17 Paladin Principles for Selecting a Financial Advisor and is a co-founder of PaladinRegistry.com.See Authors Posts (87) | February 15, 2009 | Investor Information

http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/stockblogs/141314

Seems a fitting first post for InvestorWatchdog.com, where we foresee a community of advisors, investors and authors working together to protect investors from bad financial advice, products and companies.? We aim to provide a forum?whereby investors and wealth management professionals can report about questionable financial practices including scams and schemes happening around the country as [...]