Fraud prevention

Clients — and financial advisors — should ask these three questions when asked to divulge their Social Security number.

After identifying the tax avoidance strategy as a scheme targeting high-income filers, the agency and the Treasury Department issued a new rule proposal.

Thomas M. Chadwick steered older adults into a volatile leveraged real estate product nearly wiped out by the pandemic, according to state regulators.

The criminal case follows SEC charges alleging the Kaplans bilked clients to pay for luxury purchases like handbags, watches and a matchmaking service.

Elder financial fraud has skyrocketed in recent years, but research shows that financial professionals can help fight the growing issue.

In one case, an ex-advisor is accused of defrauding clients with disabilities and spending their money on casinos and adult entertainment, among other things.

An Army financial counselor defrauded loved ones of fallen soldiers for millions of dollars while breaching the rules of his position, federal prosecutors say.

The ex-financial advisors used clients' money on their businesses and other expenses like homes and travel, according to investigators.

An AARP study found that the losses amount to tens of billions of dollars each year, with the vast majority going unreported to authorities or the industry.

Andrew Brown helped the president of the Law Enforcement Employees Benevolent Association misappropriate $500,000 in retirement savings, investigators said.