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Broker picked wrong time to boost bet on GWG bonds

Broker-dealers kept selling GWG's life settlement-backed bonds for years despite all the accounting and reporting static coming from the company.

Financial advisers and stockbrokers will sometimes double down on bad investments when they really should be running as fast as they can away from them.

No one knows the mind of another, but firms and individual brokers and financial advisers make such desperate calls for two reasons, to my think

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