Forty years of work and a lifetime of savings. Many of us strive for these goals when we retire. No one can steal the years, but the money? The savings you earned to spend time with loved ones and live comfortably on your terms? Your savings could be gone instantly with one innocent error: trusting the wrong person to invest your money.
Over the last 20 years, David Meyer has witnessed firsthand the devastating impact when financial advisors exploit the trust and confidence that investors placed with them. Wall Street spends many millions to cultivated investors’ perceptions that the firms are there to look out for their customers.
Unfortunately, that is not always the case.
When financial advisors lie, cheat or steal, it is not just the client’ s money that is lost, it is the client’ s dignity and pride that is taken from them.
It wasn’ t until David Meyer took on his first investment fraud case at 29 years of age that he truly understood the decimation caused by devious financial advisors. After winning a record-breaking jury verdict, David has been battling fraudulent financial advisors for more than two decades. Now, in The Investor Protector, he shares the stories of good people enduring unthinkable loss. These are stories of hard-earned success, unbelievable deceit, and avenging triumph. You’ll learn not only how David has helped his clients regain their savings and peace of mind, but what you can do to protect yourself — and those you love.
This book is a resource for retirees and soon-to-be retirees so that they can be armed with information that can reduce the chance they will become a victim of investment fraud, Every story David tells in this book about a case he personally handled serves a lesson that can be learned by every individual investor who is saving for retirement and is considering hiring a financial advisor. These stories are shocking and every one of these cases actually happened.
This book is resource for individual investors who suffered major losses of their life savings as the result of the misconduct of their financial advisors.