{"id":9469,"date":"2008-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"investigate-money-advisers-before-investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2008\/investigate-money-advisers-before-investing.html","title":{"rendered":"Investigate money advisers before investing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Forks Herald &#8211; From worrying about banks and a financial meltdown, investors are now wondering if they can trust the person investing their money. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this year of shocks, investors were dealt another a little over a week ago. Someone considered one of the nation&#8217;s elite money managers, Bernard Madoff, reportedly confessed that he misled investors for years about the money they were making.<\/p>\n<p>The $50 billion firm collapsed, allegedly wiping out funds of supposedly savvy investors &#8211; multimillionaires, colleges, foundations, brokerage firms and hedge funds. The clients, many of whom had done social gymnastics to get into his fund, may have nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The situation serves as a reminder that investors need: Don&#8217;t take on a broker, adviser, money manager or hedge fund without thorough checking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.grandforksherald.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=98030\u00a7ion=Business\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Forks Herald &#8211; From worrying about banks and a financial meltdown, investors are now wondering if they can trust the person investing their money. &nbsp; In this year of shocks, investors were dealt another a little over a week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4339,4306,4331,4335,4342,4341,4333,1850,4332,4337,4336,170,4340,4334,4338],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-adviser","tag-banks","tag-bernard-madoff","tag-brokerage-firms","tag-colleges","tag-elite","tag-financial-meltdown","tag-foundations","tag-grand-forks-herald","tag-gymnastics","tag-money-manager","tag-money-managers","tag-reminder","tag-savvy-investors","tag-shocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}