{"id":104041,"date":"2025-02-22T21:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T21:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/investing\/acats-transfer-fraud-oblivious-investor\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T21:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T21:01:55","slug":"acats-transfer-fraud-oblivious-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=104041","title":{"rendered":"ACATS Transfer Fraud \u2014 Oblivious Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"


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For years I\u2019ve been of the opinion that it\u2019s a good idea not to check your investment accounts very often, as it leads many people to participate in one form or another of performance chasing.<\/p>\n

I still, emphatically, think that changing your asset allocation on any regular basis is not a good idea. But I definitely see the value in checking your accounts on a regular basis as a fraud-prevention mechanism.<\/p>\n

This week we have a story of a particularly devious method of fraud (which involves direct theft, straight out of the victim\u2019s brokerage account).<\/p>\n

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