Kentucky Alternative Investment Fraud Lawyers

Kentucky Alternative Investment Fraud Lawyers From Our Lexington Securities Law Offices, Representing Investors Against Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers

If you are a Kentucky investor who sustained portfolio losses in any alternative investments that you suspect were unsuitably marketed and sold to you by a US financial advisor, Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Kentucky Alternative Investment Fraud Lawyers (investorlawyers.com) want to talk to you. We work with retail investors, retirees, seniors, accredited investors, high-net-worth investors, ultra-high-net-worth investors, and institutional investors in recouping the damages they are owed because of bad investment advice, negligence, or misbehavior by investment professionals. Contact us today so that we can help you explore your legal options.

What Are Alternative Investments?

This is a broad term for any investment that is not what is considered a “traditional” investment (cash, stock, or bonds). Here are some examples:

Exchange-traded funds
Annuities
Structured products
Real estate investment trusts
Non-traded real estate investment trusts
Oil and gas investments
Private placements
Promissory notes
L Bonds
Hedge funds
Delaware statutory trusts
More.

How Unsuitable Recommendations Can Be Harmful For Kentucky Alternative Investment Investors

Alternative investments can be risky, illiquid, complex and non-transparent. There is the potential for conflicts of interest that often go undisclosed. The makeup of an alternative investment can be hard to fully explain to an investor, especially an inexperienced one. Even financial advisors have been known to have a difficult time wrapping their heads around certain nontraditional investments. Many alternative investments are unsuitable recommendations for unsophisticated investors, conservative investors, and retail investors.

Yet, our Kentucky Alternative Investment Fraud Lawyers cannot tell you how many times we have spoken to an inexperienced senior investor or another retail investor whose broker inappropriately marketed and sold one of these products to them, perhaps even concentrated their brokerage account with too many non-traded REITs, for example. The combination of unsuitability, overconcentration, and misrepresentations and omissions of the risks have led many of these investors to sustain serious losses.

Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas can help you determine whether you have grounds for holding your financial advisor and their broker-dealer liable for your portfolio losses. For example, let us say that a private placement that you invested in proved to be part of a Ponzi scam. If your broker failed to conduct the necessary due diligence that could have allowed them to recognize signs of a scheme, ignored red flags indicating something was amiss, or became aware your funds were in trouble but didn’t act fast enough to protect you, there may be grounds for filing an alternative investment loss claim.

FINRA arbitration is where such disputes between investors and their financial advisors are brought. You will want to work with skilled Lexington alternative investment fraud lawyers that have experience winning cases in this type of legal forum. This is not the same as going to court and specific strategies and a certain level of experience is required to maximize your chances for a full recovery.

What You Shouldn’t Do When Trying Hold Your Financial Advisor Liable For Your Alternative Investment Losses?

Do NOT try to resolve this directly with your broker-dealer. Most brokerage firms will NOT readily admit to liability because they do not want to pay you—or anyone else who might come forward afterwards that also wants to hold them accountable. Also, anything you tell them might be used against any claim you decide to file. Your broker-dealer may even try to delay your case or blame you for your investment losses.

Why Hire Our Kentucky Alternative Investment Fraud Attorneys?

When you work with us, you are retaining a team with more than a century’s worth of combined experience in securities law and the securities industry. We are zealous advocates for investors and have the skills, knowledge, and resources to take on even the most complex investment loss recovery claims. Our savvy Kentucky alternative investment loss recovery attorneys know how to fight for you while protecting your legal rights.

Contact Us:

Our Lexington securities lawyers have helped thousands of investors to collectively recoup many millions of dollars. We have represented clients in more than 1000 matters in arbitration mediation and litigation.

In Fayette County, Pike County, Christian County, Pulaski County, Hardin County, and throughout Kentucky, call (859) 810-0266 or (800) 259-9010.

Our Kentucky Securities Law Office:

216 E Reynolds Rd #C
Lexington, KY 40517