Your Rights as an Investor

During the exercise of your activity as an investor some of these questions might come to your mind: What rights accompany the property of a share, a debenture or any other financial asset? In which way, as an individual investor, can I defend these rights? If I feel that I have been treated in an unjust or in an illegal way to whom should I go and which kind of compensation will I receive from the prejudice suffered?

Most companies that are quoted on the market as all the stock exchange agents in general give a just and equal treatment to the public investors in general. The supervision of communications media and more than 60 years of state and federal legislation have contributed in great measure to it.

This does not mean that the individual investors have never been prejudice by some inapprehensive or incompetent business manager, stock exchange agent oil financial advisor. As with any sector, this also has its ranks some “black sheep.” However, due that the stock exchange world is submitted to a very strict legislation, these individuals sooner or later will end on the streets.

In this section we will talk of the rights that you have as shareholder and investor and of the mechanisms that exist for repairing these mistakes.