Anytime you decide to invest, you always do background research on the asset or security, right? It is important to know the why and how of an asset or security’s performance before deciding to invest. Shouldn’t this be the same for your investment broker? Whatever security in which you invest,…
Low Interest Rates Remain The Federal Reserve has decided to leave interest rates alone for the foreseeable future, according to a report from Reuters. Despite the fact that a target rate-hike was announced last December, the Fed has deferred any increases as part of a long-term plan to reignite the…
Yesterday, in a case of investment fraud, the S.E.C. formally charged two former accounting executives with falsifying the financial performance of a real estate investment trust. It is alleged that the former executives of VEREIT Inc., then known as American Realty Capital Properties (ARCP), purposefully and knowingly overstated quarterly earnings…