As a certified financial planner, I am often faced with questions about new investments that promise high returns with low risk. Examples include so-called ‘exclusive’ high-return funds that promise ...

In a stunning development, Uttar Pradesh Police’s Economic Offences Wing arrested Gurnam Singh, director of Pearls Agro-Tech Corporation Ltd (PACL), in Punjab’s Ropar district, exposing one of India’s ...

Federal agents allege Goliath Ventures was a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors in Central Florida and elsewhere of $328 million. Federal prosecutors are seeking to seize assets of a man accused of ...

"[T]he courts are kind of catching up to the amount of damage that these guys do. The sentences are getting longer, which is a good thing," said Jason Kellogg, partner at Levine Kellogg Lehman ...

The pitch offered a “truly passive, turnkey investment” that was “ideal for the passive investor.” For $8,500 to $10,000, you could own your own vending machine that dispensed one-gallon jugs of ...

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