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Investor Education & Fraud Prevention
 (The information below is provided to educate and protect investors.)

NEW INVESTOR EDUCATION BROCHURES by Editors of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine.  Click on title below to view: The Personal Finance GUide for Military Families       (New pamphlet by Kiplinger's Personal Finance and BBB) Five Keys to Investing Success Getting Help With Your Investments Mutual Funds: Maybe all You’ll Ever Need The Basics for Investing in Stocks A Primer for Investing in Bonds Maximize Your Retirement Investments Where to Invest Your College Money New - "Oil and Gas Investment Alert"        These brochures are provided courtesy of the Investor Protection Trust              www.investorprotection.org .         (Copyrights: Brochures may be used for educational or noncommercial purposes only.)

• ASC-Services-Information

• When Your Broker Calls - Take NOTES!

• Seniors Take Control and Protect Yourself 

• Red Flag Phrases for Investment Fraud

• Just a Cost of Doing Business

• Take a Quiz and Check Out Your Fraud Prevention IQ!

• Ten Tips to Avoid Investment Fraud

• Beware of Oil and Gas Schemes

• Investor Alert - International-Related E-Mail Solicitations

• The Investor Bill of Rights

• Affinity Fraud:  Beware of Swindlers Who Claim Loyalty to Your Group

• Cold Calling Alert

• How Older Americans Can Avoid Investment Fraud and Abuse

• How to Spot a Con Artist

• Some CD's Aren't What They Seem

• “Top Five” investments to be wary about!

• For an example of an internet scam go to www.mcwhortle.com and click the ready to invest or buy area.

• How to Remove Your Name from Mailing, Telemarketing, and Email Lists

• Understanding Your Brokerage Account Statements

• IBFT -- A PONZI Scheme

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  FINANCIAL LITERACY (FL):  The Alabama Securities Commission (ASC) actively promotes financial literacy and investor education by providing the following publications to teachers in a hard copy upon request.  Both publications may be downloaded by anyone from the internet.  These publications may be copied, printed and used for non-commercial educational purposes:

          The Basics of Saving and Investing:  Investor Education 2020
          http://www.investorprotection.org/downloads/pdf/learn/basics/IPT_Basics_National_2010.pdf

          Personal Finance for the Economics Classroom
               Email: Dan Lord for information.

Qualified ASC staff members are available to present these free curriculum opportunities to groups of teachers or educators in public or private schools.  Also, ASC promotes Financial Literacy and Investor Education through presentations and other printed materials. 

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