Not all advice is Toshi.

Not all advice is Toshi

Not all advice is Toshi

The Japanese investor, looking for advice, will find plenty of consultants willing to offer it. Some are on a level with the Toshi Journal, a monthly specializing in stock exchange tips, which invited its readers to let it invest on their behalf.

By the time Toshi Journal went under, in 1984, it had deprived 10,000 savers of a total 350 billion ($1.8 billion). It left 800 successors, investment advisory companies, for the most part owned by individuals, and all completely unregulated.

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