Business & Economics Investing
Swindlers
Cons, Cheats and How to Protect Your Investments from Them
- Publisher
- Madison Press Books
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2012
- Category
- Investing
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897330821
- Publish Date
- Aug 2012
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Ponzi schemes, pyramid scams, cooked books, worthless audits, self-serving rule setters. The odds are stacked against investors in Canada. Who can you trust and how can you ensure that your pension will be waiting for you upon retirement?Al and Mark Rosen share their tips and advice on how investors should do their research and homework in order to avoid becoming victims to the swindlers and the crooks. In the wake of the economic crisis comes a book written by two experts that will help even the most financially inept client navigate his way through the complicated world of investing. Swindlers couldn't have come at a better time.
About the authors
Al Rosen is one of Canada's leading forensic accountants, and principal of Rosen & Associates in Toronto. He has given expert accounting testimony in Canada's highest courts; is a fellow of the Chartered Accountants of Ontario and Alberta, a certified fraud examiner, and a specialist in investigative and forensic accounting. Mark Rosen is a CFA charterholder, and received his MBA from York University in 1998. He is the author or co-author of several financial reporting and accounting articles that have appeared in the national media.
Al Rosen and Mark Rosen are co-founders of Accountability Research Corporation and have written columns for Canadian Business Magazine, The Financial Post, and Advisor’s Edge Report. They both live in Toronto.