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The Preservation of Principal Fund
James Davis Risher (aka Jay Risher)
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- Company / entity
- The Preservation of Principal Fund
- Industry
- Private equity / securities trading fund
- How investors were recruited
- An insurance agent in Lakeland, FL solicited his existing clients (SEC: teachers, retirees, church members, golfers).
- Pitch & red flags
- "extraordinarily high rates of return"; fund named "Preservation of Principal"
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Source
U.S. Department of Justice official
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