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EARLY RETIREMENT SEMINAR SCAMS - FINRA and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans are launching two online resources to help companies and their older workers protect themselves from early retirement scams. Help Your Employees Achieve Their Retirement Dream: Tips for Spotting Early Retirement Scams offers tips on how to evaluate early retirement seminars with an investment angle.  Early Retirement Seminars 101: Smart Tips for Spotting Retirement Scams, alerts employees to the pitfalls of early retirement schemes ...
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HOT SUMMER INVESTMENT SCAMS - As summer approaches, the North American Securities Administrators Association warns that scamsters are using every trick under the sun to separate unsuspecting investors from their hard-earned dollars. State and provincial securities regulators caution investors to "screen" for hot energy-related tips, speculative real estate promotions, unsolicited invitations from new online "friends," and complex, opaque investment products that fail to offer clear disclosures of their risks and costs ...
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401(k) DEBIT CARD PITFALLS - FINRA has issued an alert to inform investors about the potential pitfalls of 401(k) debit cards. Many Americans tap their retirement savings before they retire, potentially harming their efforts to provide for a financially secure future. The 401(k) debit card is often marketed as ideal for employers whose workforce include young, seasonal, transitory, or union workers. Although they may seem to be an attractive feature of some 401(k) plans, taking money out of your retirement savings, even for a short period of time, can have enormous repercussions for your retirement security -- particularly if you never put the money back ...
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SUBPRIME MORTGAGES 101 - A Federal Reserve survey shows that 53.7 percent of African Americans who took out mortgages to buy homes in 2006 used higher-cost loans -- often subprime adjustable-rate mortgages -- compared with 17.7 percent of whites.    The National Endowment for Financial Education, through a grant to Hampton University, hopes to reverse that trend.  The grant, awarded in 2004, created and provided financial education workshops for low-to-moderate income families and individuals, primarily those in the African-American community   ...
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EMERGENCY ACTION TAKEN - The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that it has obtained an asset freeze and other emergency relief to protect investors whose funds were at risk due to fraudulent misconduct at a Longwood, Fla., based general securities and clearing brokerage firm. The SEC requested the relief when it filed a complaint on May 27, 2008, against North American Clearing, its founder and director Richard L. Goble, its president Bruce B. Blatman, and its former financial and operations principal Timothy J. Ward, charging them with fraud and other securities laws violations. The SEC's complaint alleges that the defendants engaged in illegal activities, including the misuse of customer funds, in order to hide North American Clearing's financial problems and to pay for its daily business operations.     ...
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