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The Smith-Hanna Report Pre­view iden­ti­fies the pre­vi­ously unknown risks to investor’s money in bro­ker­age accounts.

  • Did you know almost all invest­ments are held in the bro­ker­age firm’s name – not the customer’s name. YES…your name shows up on your monthly state­ment, but your bro­ker­age firm’s name, is on your invest­ments. Learn more in (1) Hid­den Risk.
  • Did you know your bro­ker­age firm may be bor­row­ing money by pawn­ing (rehy­potho­cat­ing) your invest­ments?   If they go bust, their cred­i­tors have a legal claim to what’s yours. The risk is real. Major bro­ker­age firms have failed or been dis­man­tled – more may fol­low. Learn more in (2) Pawned Investments.
  • Why? Because of deriv­a­tives, described by War­ren Buf­fet as “Finan­cial weapons of mass destruc­tion.” Bro­kers carry much of those risks – so YOUR invest­ments could be destroyed by Sys­temic or Bro­ker­age Firm Fail­ure.  Learn more in (3) Deriv­a­tives.
  • Do you think Secu­ri­ties Investor Pro­tec­tion Corp (SIPC) pro­tects you? Unlike the FDIC, there is no Fed­eral guar­an­tee back­stop­ping SIPC’s promises. Learn more in (4) False Secu­rity.
  • Has your bro­ker­age firm acted in ways that threaten your finan­cial secu­rity? Find out more of the shock­ing find­ings of the Smith-Hanna Report, in (5) Con­clu­sion & Fur­ther Help.

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