Leland Faust 
Leland Faust founded CSI Capital Management and was chief investment officer from 1978 through 2011 and managed over $1.5 billion for the company. He was chief investment officer of a highly rated mutual fund. Since 1978 he and his firm have represented over 500 NFL, NBA and MLB stars, Grammy and Academy award winners, high wealth individuals, foundations, family trusts and retirement plans.
For his work in the financial services industry Faust was named from 2007 through 2010 (every year he was eligible for selection) by Barron’s to its annual list of the Top 100 Independent Investment Advisors in the US. For his work with professional athletes he was named by The Sporting News to its annual list of The 100 Most Powerful People in the Sports Industry (one of only two investment advisors ever selected for that list).
In 2011 CSI Capital Management sold its business and responsibility for managing approximately $1.7 billion to SunTrust Bank.
A Capitalist's Lament: How Wall Street is Fleecing You and Ruining America was named #1 in New Releases in Financial Services by Amazon and is currently #4 in Best Sellers in Financial Services Industry. The book is a collection of Faust’s real life observations from working in the industry for over 40 years.
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Books by Leland Faust
Leland Faust unmasks Wall Street's unsavory tactics in powerful detail by giving readers a high-level view of how the financial services industry misleads them, overcharges them, and exposes them to needless risk. He documents the financial industry's alluring come-ons, airbrushed risks, high-stakes gambling, half-truths, misleading statements, outlandish predictions, tricks to overcharge customers, bad deals, and outright fraud by the most prominent and renowned of Wall Street's players.
A Capitalist's Lament is about what happens when financial firms and their employees forget whose interest they are supposed to protect. It shows how making foolish or wrong predictions is of no consequence to those who make them and how Wall Street luminaries with poor track records still garner celebrity status. Most of all, it spotlights how Wall Street manipulates the system and furthers its own interests at its customers' expense and puts us all at great risk. Here is what you need to know to protect yourself from "business as usual" and get ahead-instead of getting taken.
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