This example shows that increased caution is required in the area of closed-end funds. The aircraft funds increasingly offered lately, which threatening problems due to possible abrogation of the tax breaks are similarly dependent on the economic situation. “Are very popular also so-called Waldinvests or forest fund, which the investors in the role as a forester from a distance” put. The Fund and thus the individual investor acquires a piece of forest and exploits the available stock, that sold and proceeds to the investors will be paid out in certain cycles of the afforestation. The investment good wood”sounds very crisis at first glance.
Yet it should not be forgotten that a wide variety of hazards, forest fires, Storms, floods and insect infestations threaten that can destroy sometimes the entire forest inventory of the Fund. Can lower the demand for wood for a long time and as a result the price fall. In all closed-end fund investors take entrepreneurial risk. You have the prospect of attractive returns, also bear the full entrepreneurial risk, which means that there is always a risk of total loss of the invested capital but in return. These funds are suitable only for investors who want to speculate only with a small part of their assets and can get over a potential total loss. Often these plants are recommended but also less risk-ready investors dubious advisers. This compared with most of them compared to conservative investments be lifted out significantly higher yield opportunities, while the described risks knowing of such participation will be concealed. Investors who do not have the risks were resolved and one Participation in closed-end Fund have, should seek urgently legal advice, before the impending risks be realized which now already have arrived at the shipping funds. Contact: Torsten Senn lawyer boiler str. 19 70327 Stuttgart phone: 0711/9455855-88 fax: 0711/9455855-20
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