{"id":8419,"date":"2019-06-28T17:01:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T21:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/?p=8419"},"modified":"2019-06-28T17:01:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T21:01:28","slug":"gpb-wall-streets-highest-commission-product-just-became-retail-investors-biggest-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/gpb-wall-streets-highest-commission-product-just-became-retail-investors-biggest-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"GPB \u00ad- Wall Street\u2019s Highest Commission Product Just Became Retail Investors Biggest Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8420 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cash4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"GPB Capital raised over 1.5 billion dollars primarily from mom and pop investors over the last four years. How was GPB they able to raise this money? By paying small and regional brokerage firms over nine (9) percent of the money raised back to the selling broker-dealers.Last week, GPB announced that many of their funds are down 40% or more in value. In hopes of offering their clients some solace, GPB highlighted that it had already made distributions to investors of about 15% of the investors\u2019 capital. However, many investors were shocked to learn that these distributions were not from earnings or profits but an actual return of the money they had previously invested.\u00a0 In other words, GPB wants to be applauded for returning to investors at least some of their money.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cash4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cash4-180x120.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>GPB Capital raised over 1.5 billion dollars primarily from mom and pop investors over the last four years. How was GPB they able to raise this money? By paying small and regional brokerage firms over nine (9) percent of the money raised back to the selling broker-dealers.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, GPB announced that many of their funds are down 40% or more in value. In hopes of offering their clients some solace, GPB highlighted that it had already made distributions to investors of about 15% of the investors\u2019 capital. However, many investors were shocked to learn that these distributions were not from earnings or profits but an actual return of the money they had previously invested. In other words, GPB wants to be applauded for returning to investors at least some of their money. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/gpb-wall-streets-highest-commission-product-just-became-retail-investors-biggest-nightmare\/#more-8419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GPB Capital raised over 1.5 billion dollars primarily from mom and pop investors over the last four years. How was GPB they able to raise this money? By paying small and regional brokerage firms over nine (9) percent of the money raised back to the selling broker-dealers. Last week, GPB announced that many of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[598,595,699],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternate-investments","category-investment-fraud","category-private-placement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GPB \u00ad- Wall Street\u2019s Highest Commission Product Just Became Retail Investors Biggest Nightmare<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"GPB Capital raised over 1.5 billion dollars primarily from mom and pop investors by paying brokerage firms over 9% of the money raised back.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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