Andrew Lahde the 37y.o. manager of a small California hedge fund, Lahde Capital, made a killing last year betting on the subprime collapse. Last month, he called it quits after the fund had amassed a whopping return of 866% in a little over a year. Tired of the stress, he closed the fund.
On October 17th, [...]

We wrote about the litigation initiated by the SEC against GlobalOnlineDirect a year ago in July 2007. As predicted, when the government gets involved issuing a cease and desist order for these types of online “investments”, any hopes of recovering lost money for the majority of the investors is only wishful thinking. [...]

It is official. We are putting Worldlpp.com and Worldlpp.net into the scam category. Numerous attempts to contact the admin, Conrad Addison, and the company itself have been fruitless. It appears that the program had run away with the investors’ money, shut down the sites and no longer communicating with their investors.
The last [...]

A question often asked by our readership is where we come up with some of these alternative investment ideas. Well, besides being bombarded by a ton of financial related snail mail and newsletters, we get quite a bit of investment newsletters that we are subscribed to. If we see something interesting, we will [...]

It was just a matter of time before one of the state securities commission would take a closer look at the Pathway-2-Prosperity network. The question now is how much longer will they stay online? Do not think for a moment that this is an isolated investigation.
If the ND Securities believes that P2P is [...]

We have written about M-Commerce in the past and still believe it is the wave of the future in regards to payment processing. Self Bank Mobile is the newest player on the block that appears to have the infrastructure and management in place to take it to the next level. They could [...]

Sometimes an investor has to be in the right place at the right time to take an opportunity by the bullhorn. If you are still not convinced that offshore investing can be safe and profitable, look no further than the family of mutual funds offered by Orbis.
Based in Bermuda, their equity and absolute return [...]

Placing you savings, investments, assets or businesses outside your home country within one of the many tax havens is sure way to protect and retain more of your hard earned money. A tax haven is a country that has favorable tax advantages. Going offshore in one of these countries means that your savings, [...]