The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA) with the FBI Criminal Investigative Division recently issued a cautionary statement. The alert warns of fraudsters posing as brokers or investment advisers. Below are different tactics that fraudsters use to mislead and steal from investors: 1. Spoofed Websites Scammers may register look-alike websites or URL addresses of registered investment professionals or firms. If you are an

What Does a Family Office Mean? A family office is a private firm that offers wealth management advisory to ultra-high-net-worth families. It provides a completely outsourced solution to the management of a family’s or individual’s wealth. The key difference between traditional hedge funds and pension funds is that a family office runs on the assets of a family or an individual. The traditional funds combine capital from third parties and invest them. In 2011 the Advisers Act