Denver Alternative Investment Fraud Lawyers – We Help Colorado Investors Recoup Their Losses Caused By Financial Advisor Negligence and Fraud
From our Denver securities law office, Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas (investorlawyers.com) represent clients throughout The Centennial State who have sustained serious alternative investment losses that involved broker fraud or negligence. For over 30 years, we have fought for retail investors, retirees, elderly investors, accredited investors, high-net-worth investors, and institutional investors in arbitration, mediation, and litigation. We have the skills, resources, and experience to maximize your chances for a full financial recovery in even the most complex investment loss recovery claims.
Why Explore The Cause of Your Alternative Investment Losses?
It can be hard to know for sure whether broker misconduct or carelessness played a part in your portfolio losses, which is why you want to speak with our seasoned Colorado alternative investment fraud lawyers. We can help you determine exactly what happened. Yes, some investor losses are no one’s fault.
However, there are those portfolio losses that may have been prevented or minimized were it not for the wrongful actions of your financial advisor or even their lack of proper action. In such instances, your broker-dealer or investment adviser may owe you damages for the financial harm that you suffered.
What Are Alternative Investments?
These are the kinds of investments that generally fall outside the scope of what are typically considered traditional investments. Offering an opportunity for portfolio diversification and a chance to make more money using a non-conventional approach, alternative investments have become very popular even with retail investors in recent years.
Examples:
- Real estate investments
- Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Non-traded real estate investment trusts (non-traded REITs)
- Regulation D (Reg D) offerings
- Private placements
- Structured products
- Oil and gas investments
- Hedge funds
- Business development companies (BDCs)
- Delaware statutory trusts (DSTs)
- Annuities
- Private equity funds
- Hedge funds
- More.
Yes, alternative investments can provide opportunities. However, these can also be risky, complex, illiquid investments, and they are not suitable for many inexperienced, retail investors and conservative retirees.
Risks That May Impact An Alternative Investment:
- Possible conflicts of interest.
- Poor regulation.
- Exposure to market volatility.
- Non-transparency that makes it hard to obtain verified performance information.
- A high minimum investment requirement.
- There are not enough known performance benchmarks.
- High commissions and complex fee structures, as well as other costs.
Our Denver alternative investment fraud lawyers cannot tell you how many times someone has sustained losses, whether from some scam and/or because of an unsuitable alternative investment recommendation, misrepresentations and omissions made regarding the risks, portfolio overconcentration, due diligence failures, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, or gross negligence by their financial advisor.
Regardless of whether or not the broker-dealer or investment adviser knew what was going on, if they failed to properly supervise their registered representative and alternative investment losses resulted, you may be able to hold them liable for your losses.
Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas have represented investors in over 1000 matters in arbitration, mediation, and litigation. More than 90% of our clients have secured full or partial financial recovery with our help. Over the decades, this has equated to many millions of dollars collectively secured by thousands through our hard work and dedicated efforts.
Many of us are former brokers who left the industry because we witnessed a lot of bad behaviors that we knew were hurting investors. That is why we chose to become Colorado alternative investment loss attorneys instead. We are here to protect your legal rights and use our knowledge as former insiders of the brokerage industry to hold broker-dealers and investment advisers accountable for their actions.
What Should You Do If You Sustained Losses in Alternative Investments Sold To You By A Financial Advisor?
Contact our Denver alternative investment fraud lawyers to schedule your free, initial case consultation. This is not something that you want to try to address directly with your broker-dealer or investment adviser, especially if you suspect that financial advisor fraud or negligence occurred.
In Denver County, Adams County, Jefferson County, Douglas County, Broomfield County, and the surrounding areas in Colorado, call (720) 439-2827 or (800) 259-9010. In Western Colorado, you can contact our Ridgway, CO securities lawyers.
Our Denver Alternative Investment Fraud Lawyers Office
1700 Lincoln St #2710
Denver, CO 80203