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Feds Charge Norada with Swindling $62.5 million from Investors in Massive Ponzi Scheme – How to Detect the Red Flags Beforehand
Investors were drawn-in by promises of sky-high returns, low-risk, raving investor reviews and were paid like clockwork … right up until it all collapsed. Here’s how many Private Investor Club members spotted the disturbing warning signs early and avoided the blood-bath.
Ian Ippolito
6 min read
Busting the Myth: Why Interest Rate Changes Don't Affect Real Estate Prices The Way You Think They Do
Contrary to conventional wisdom, real estate price changes aren't directly correlated to interest rate changes. This article takes a hard...
Ian Ippolito
10 min read
A Tale of Four Investments: How Major Real-state Asset Class Prices are on Completely Different Paths in Today's Unusual Environment
Unprecedented events have caused prices on the four primary real-estate classes to do something very unusual… completely diverge. We...
Ian Ippolito
6 min read
SEC charges once-popular ATM operator Prestige Investment Group of being a Ponzi-scheme and losing $400 million of investor money (and CEO Daryl F. Heller of misappropriating $185 million)
For years, enthusiastic Prestige investors couldn't pile in fast enough in and gushed about being “paid like clockwork”. But in the end, the house of cards came crashing down with investor lawsuits and jaw-dropping losses. Yet many Private Investor Club members spotted glaring red flags from the beginning and avoided the carnage completely, by walking away. Here’s how and why.
Ian Ippolito
6 min read
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