High Yield Investment Programs: Fact, or Fiction?

by Brian Igoe

I originally became interested in so-called High Yield Investment Programs, HYIP’s, in 1998 when researching alternative sources of finance for investment in areas seen as a bad risk for geo-political reasons. I wrote a series of articles around that time for a finance magazine, in the hope of attracting criticism and comment – which I did! I have now put these together as a small book, and this is the result.
At that time I was resident in Zimbabwe, but I have had to relocate, temporarily at least. However I was fortunate in that my job allowed me to function from almost anywhere. Now that I have retired, the same applies!
This book does not claim to be a treatise on High Yield Investment Programmes. It does not even aver that such investment programmes exist. It is not a "First Steps in HYIP's", like "First Steps in French”. It is nothing more than a compendium of information which has come my way – I leave you to make your own mind up!

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First published October 23, 2012

About the author

Brian Igoe holds an MA in law from Cambridge University in the UK, so he thinks he can write intelligibly. He is very much a family man who has four sons and three granddaughters. Last year he celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary. He never even thought about writing anything more than a diary or a business document until he retired. That momentous event left him with time to write for fun, almost exclusively history, sometimes presented in novel form. He now writes Ancient Roman history covering the late Republic to the early Empire, and has in the past written Irish history (he is Irish) and Southern African, since he lived in Zimbabwe for thirty years - he still thinks of that beautiful country as home even though he now lives in the UK. Apart from history, a passion since his schooldays, his other great passion has been flying light aircraft, which is how he survived the years of the Liberation Struggle, or so he says. That, and computers. He was running an automated dairy herd on a Kaypro “portable” computer in 1983 and has never looked back. That was why he took to eBooks as soon as he came across them, and now everything he writes is written chiefly for eBook publication, although there appears to be a shift in reader emphasis back to printed books, so he also offers Print On Demand versions (more expensive!).