Alternative Investments

Alternative Investment Fraud Attorneys

Published on: September 5, 2024 | by Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP

Are You An Investor Who Suffered Losses in An HPI Real Estate Fund?

Contact our Alternative Investment Fraud Attorneys Today

At Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas (investorlawyers.com), it has come to our attention that there may be financial advisors who allegedly misrepresented the risks when selling Hamilton Point Investments (HPI) to investors. HPI is a real estate private equity investment company that owns and operates multi-family apartment homes, hotels, and manufactured housing communities.

Texas Alternative Investment Loss Lawyers

Published on: August 20, 2024 | by Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP

Sugar Land, TX Couple Files Seven-Figure REIT Fraud Lawsuit Against Centaurus Financial. Our Texas Alternative Investment Loss Lawyers Are Representing These Claimants

A retired Texas couple is seeking up to $1,000,000 in damages from Centaurus Financial over losses they sustained in non-traded real estate investment trusts (non-traded REITs) and other alternative investments. The claimants contend that ex-Centaurus broker Mark Allen Upchurch allegedly unsuitably recommended:

The real estate investment trust (REIT), UDF IV, which lost about half its value following allegations that parent company United Development Funding was running an alleged Ponzi scam.

Alternative Investment Loss Attorneys

Published on: July 1, 2024 | by Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP

Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Alternative Investment Loss Attorneys Investigate Resolute/PetroRock Investments

Sanford & Bernstein Broker Devin Patel And Other Financial Advisors Allegedly Unsuitably Sold Oil and Gas Investments

Our financial advisor fraud lawyers are looking into losses involving Resolute/Petrorock investments. We believe that retail investors, many of whom were at retirement age, may have been unsuitably marketed over $250M of these unregistered equity and debt securities, including oil and gas investments.

Alternative Investment Loss Attorneys

Published on: May 19, 2024 | by Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP

New Jersey Widow Sues Cambridge Investment Research Over Alternative Investment Losses

Elderly Investor Seeks Up to $500K For LJM Preservation and Growth Fund, FS Energy & Power Fund, Highlands REIT, InvenTrust PPTYS, and Other Losses

If you suffered losses in alternative investments that were recommended by your financial advisor, contact the Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Alternative Investment Loss Attorneys (investorlawyers.com) today. These high-risk, illiquid investments are unsuitable for many conservative and elderly retirees. Yet, many brokers continue to market and sell them to these investors in order to earn high commissions.

Broker Unsuitability Attorney

Published on: June 19, 2023 | by Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP

Did Your Broker Unsuitability Recommend Alternative Investments?

Our Skilled Broker-Dealer Negligence Lawyers Are Investigating Centaurus Financial Advisor Valentino Scott

Alternative investments can be high-risk and they are generally unsuitable for most retail customers and conservative retirees. They also aren’t always suitable even for high-net-worth investors or accredited investors. A lot depends on an investor’s age, risk-tolerance level, portfolio, financial goals, and investment time horizon.

Alternative Investment Fraud Lawyers

Published on: April 25, 2023 | by Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP

Customers of Berthel Fisher Sought $32.1M in Damages From Brokerage-Dealer

Our Experienced Alternative Investment Fraud Lawyers Are Investigating Investor Losses

According to the yearly audited financial statement submitted by Berthel Fisher to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in March, the broker-dealer concluded 2022 with about $32.1M in pending investor loss claims. While it is unclear which investments were specifically involved, as InvestmentNews reported, Berthel Fisher has a long history of selling alternative investments to customers. On multiple occasions, these investment recommendations were investors for whom these were allegedly unsuitable given their financial goals.

Alternative Investment Loss Lawyers

Published on: February 15, 2023 | by Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP

Did You Invest in Private Placements That Were Too Risky For You?

Our Alternative Investment Loss Lawyers Are Investigating Brokers That May Have Unsuitably Marketed Legion Capital Corp. To Customers

Private placements are typically risky, illiquid investments and ideally should only be recommended to accredited investors that meet certain income level thresholds and/or are financially sophisticated. That said, even experienced, wealthy investors fall victim to unsuitable recommendations by a broker.

Investor Losses Involving Complete Business Solutions Group (Par Funding)

Published on: November 22, 2022 | by Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP

$500M of This Risky Private Placement Investment May Have Been Sold By Brokerage Firms

More than two years after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it had filed an emergency action against Complete Business Solutions (d/b/a Par Funding), many of those who collectively invested up to $500M in its alternative investment offerings are still grappling with how to recover their investor losses.

The Broker Misconduct Lawyer teams of Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas (investorlawyers.com) are speaking with these investors, many of whom may have been unsuitably sold these risky unregistered securities by brokers. If this is the case for you, then you may have grounds for filing a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) lawsuit against your broker-dealer for damages.

GWG Holdings Misses $13.6M in Payments to L Bond Investors

Published on: February 2, 2022 | by Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP

Hundreds of Broker-Dealers May Have Sold Up to $2B of High-Yield Junk Bonds

InvestmentNews reports that according to an industry insider, GWG Holdings may have issued up to $2B of high-yield junk bonds in recent years. While Emerson Equity is the managing broker-dealer for the GWG Issuer, there may have been hundreds of other broker-dealers that also sold L-Bonds to investors.

In a January 15, 2022 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), GWG disclosed that it hasn’t been able to issue $13.6M in principal payments and interest that it owes to L Bond investors. The Dallas-based alternative asset manager has a 30-day grace period to complete the payments or risk default.

Former GPB Capital Holdings CEO David Gentile Sues The Alternative Asset Firm

Published on: January 4, 2022 | by Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP

Founder Faces Charges Over $1.8B Ponzi Scam and Wants GPB Capital to Pay His Legal Fees

Beleaguered private equity firm GPB Capital Holdings is back in the news. This time its founder and former CEO, David Gentile, is suing the company in Delaware Chancery Court.

Gentile, who is facing criminal, civil fraud, and conspiracy charges related to the over $1.8B Ponzi scam that GPB is accused of perpetuating, wants his legal defense fees paid for and not out of his own pocket.