Dallas Alternative Investment Fraud Lawyers

Dallas Alternative Investment Loss Recovery Lawyers – We Help Texas Investors In Fighting For The Damages Owed To Them By Financial Advisors

Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas (investorlawyers.com) Dallas Alternative Investment Fraud Lawyers represent investors who are seeking to recoup the losses they sustained in alternative investments. If your broker or investment adviser marketed or sold you one of these non-traditional investments, contact our Dallas, TX securities law office today.

What Are Alternative Investments?

These are risky, illiquid, usually complex investments that may provide certain earning opportunities for an investor that they wouldn’t have access to otherwise. As a matter of fact, alternative investments have become so popular that there are brokerage firms that have their own proprietary products to sell to their customers.

Examples of Alternative investments:

• Regulation D Offerings
• Exchange-traded funds (including leveraged and inverse ETFs)
• Delaware statutory trusts (DSTs)
• Structured notes
• Structured products
• Oil and gas investments
• Regulation D Investment
• Private placements
• Non-traded real estate investment trusts
• Real Estate investment trusts
• Annuities
• Private Debt
• Equity
• Real estate
• Private Equity
• Cryptocurrency
• Derivatives
• Collectibles
• Venture capital
• Managed futures

Depending on which one, an alternative investment may add diversity to a portfolio, give an investor a chance to take part in an emerging market, or hedge bets against inflation. However, alternative investments are not a good fit for every investor, and an unsuitable recommendation by a broker that leaves a customer with a volatile, risky, or even fraudulent alternative investment can lead to serious losses.

Unfortunately, unsuitable investment recommendations happen way too often. One reason for this is that financial advisors usually stand to make a lot in commissions and fees from marketing these kinds of products to customers.

The opportunity can compel some financial advisors to ignore a customer’s best interests, make misrepresentations and omissions about any risks, overconcentrate an account with too many alternative investments, or even commit elder financial abuse by taking advantage of an older senior or someone with disabilities or cognitive impairments.

What Are Some of the Risks Involved in Alternative Investments?

• Because of low-to-know liquidity, there may be strict redemption restrictions.
• Less regulatory oversight and not a lot of transparency. This can make it hard to assess or even challenge the stated value of the alternative investment.
• Potential legal and tax considerations.
• Possible conflicts of interest.
• High minimum investments are often required. There also may be performance and incentive fees.

It doesn’t help that due to their complex nature, certain alternative investments can be difficult for even some financial advisors to be able to fully understand. This can lead to the broker or investment adviser not being able to provide a customer with all of the information they need. Reasons an alternative investment might lose money can vary, such as regulatory changes, issues with reselling, credit risk, fraud, market volatility, fraud, and more.

How Can Our Dallas Alternative Investment Fraud Lawyers Help?

If you want to know whether financial advisor misconduct or negligence played a part in causing your portfolio losses, Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas can help you determine whether you do, in fact, have grounds for a claim against your broker-dealer or investment adviser.

Our Dallas Alternative Investment Fraud Lawyers work with Texas investors against US-based financial firms. We have decades of experience representing clients in arbitration, mediation, and litigation. Should we decide to work together, we know what to do to maximize your chances for a full financial recovery.

Many of us are former brokers who left because we didn’t like the bad behaviors we witnessed that were hurting investors. We became Texas alternative investment loss lawyers because we wanted to advocate for and protect retail investors, retirees, institutional investors, high-net-worth investors, and ultra-high-net-worth investors.

We now use our knowledge as former insiders of the brokerage industry to fight for our clients in recouping the damages they are owed. More than 90% of investors we have worked with have received full or partial financial recovery.

How To Contact Our Dallas Alternative Investment Loss Recovery Lawyers:

Call (214) 613-5306 or (800) 259-9010 or fill out this form to schedule your free, initial case consultation.

Founders Square
900 Jackson St #440-A
Dallas, TX 75202