Chapter 46 It doesn't matter if you win the lawsuit
By the time Locke crossed over in the last life, many Wall Street companies had actually moved out of Wall Street, and the name had become a symbol.
In these days, as long as it is a company located on Wall Street, it gives the impression that it is rich.
The United States seems to be full of rich people, but in fact, even at the time of Locke's crossing, according to Forbes, there were only five or six hundred people with a fortune of more than $100 million.
Of course, there are also various methods used by wealthy people to hide their assets, so this number may be multiplied by two.
In addition, he doesn't seem to have many assets under his name, but with invisible assets such as charitable trusts, antiques, and overseas wealth, he is no less than a billionaire.
Overall, the number of these billionaires adds up to 2,000 at most.
Now Locke is also one of these rich people, and after the funds he got in the Fuzhong Building were 'legally' transferred to his name, he found a stockbroker on Wall Street to manage them on his behalf.
The stockbroker's authority is very small, and any small transfer of funds requires Locke's consent, because Locke only needs an executor who acts on his orders, not a promoter who tells him to buy the stock.
These professionals may have good professionalism, but they are fools to really use a large amount of money to test their professionalism.
In order to avoid similar problems, when he was hired, Locke strictly restricted the other party's permissions, and checked them from time to time.
When checking the account in the past few days, Locke didn't find out that his stockbroker had misappropriated funds for investment without authorization, but Martin Channing's enthusiasm for himself at the banquet that day still let Locke know that his information must have been leaked.
After all, the income of his own writers on the surface is only a few hundred thousand dollars so far, which is not enough for Martin Channing, who has reached the capital threshold of one million dollars, to promote his fund openly and secretly.
Locke didn't know what the stockbroker had exchanged for his information, perhaps a good pay, or the friendship of Martin Channing, an investor who had made a name for himself on Wall Street in the last two years.
He didn't need to figure it out, he just fired his stockbroker, and at the same time hired a lawyer to pursue his lawsuit for leaking his information.
It doesn't matter whether the evidence is sufficient or not, whether you can win the lawsuit, the key is to make the reputation of this guy who doesn't follow the rules completely stink.
After all, no one wants to hire a guy who leaks their own information to be their stockbroker.
These Wall Street guys are greedy enough and have a flexible moral bottom line, and Locke is just showing his attitude now, so that those who work for him in the future will have more scruples in their hearts.
This may not completely avoid some problems, but at least it can reduce the frequency of problems.
In his previous life, Locke changed his fate through his efforts, but he was just an ordinary person for most of his life, which led to his usual shopping being more inclined to choose those discounted products.
It wasn't until the funds gradually became abundant that I gradually felt that money was used to spend, and I began to think about how to make more money with the funds on hand than how to save money.
Ordinary people do not have the capital and skills to try so much, so they can only carefully guard the few wealth they have, otherwise they will fall into bankruptcy if they encounter a sudden crisis.
The so-called money is basically only suitable for the rich, not for ordinary people, and if you really follow the study, most of them will lose a mess.
In this money game, in the previous life, until the end, Locke was still just a novice who could not get started, but in this life, relying on the information of future development trends, it is enough to make Locke an investment genius in the eyes of others.
doubled the funds of more than 400 million US dollars in a year, and also allowed Locke to take Tang Wei out shopping without thinking about the price of buying things.
There is no shortage of high-end brand stores on Fifth Avenue, which can be described as fiercely competitive.
The price of these luxury goods is that the average middle class grits their teeth and can buy some, such as a set of Dior women's clothing, which is generally priced between a few hundred and two thousand dollars, which is about the current income of the middle class in the United States for a month.
Tang Wei wore a pink skirt today, which did not match the blue top, and the key was not a famous brand.
The clerk didn't have the slightest special look, and according to Locke's requirements, he recommended a suitable match to her very intimately.
In such a boutique, it's not just the women's shopping experience that focuses on the women's shopping experience, but also the men who accompany them, after all, in most cases, these are the ones who pull out their wallets.
While waiting for Tang Wei to try on clothes, Locke sat on the sofa in the corner, drinking the coffee brought by the clerk, and his eyes swept over the leather bags on the shelves.
Coming out of the changing room, Tang Wei's clothes have changed into a white suit, black high heels, long hair coiled up, and his temperament is completely different, and the whole person has a bit of a shrewd and capable appearance of a female white-collar worker.
Tang Wei, who was standing in front of the dressing mirror, took a few postures, walked a few more steps, and then nodded with satisfaction: "The pair of high-heeled shoes I tried before had a seven-centimeter heel, and I wasn't very comfortable with it, so I changed to the current pair of five-centimeters." ”
"It's okay, that's good, that's it." Locke nodded, and pointed to the shelf where the handbag was placed: "The next thing is to pick a suitable bag." ”
Many men can't understand why women like bags, so a few pieces of broken skin and some zippers can easily sell at a high price, and in the end they can only sigh that women's money is really easy to make.
Locke couldn't understand it either, but it didn't prevent him from supporting the woman's choice at this time.
Seeing that Tang Wei chose for a long time, and finally chose a black handbag, Locke said to the clerk: "Wrap these up first, and then send them to the residence after trying them all in a while." ”
Tang Wei is not the kind of girl who likes to shop when she has nothing to do, except for a brief infatuation with this feeling when she first met Locke, and most of the time after that, she was very restrained in the face of these luxury goods.
In the past year, in addition to tuition, Locke gave Tang Wei $2,000 a month, but she was able to save half, and she never bought high-priced luxury goods.
Most of the more expensive clothes and jewelry she has now were bought by Locke on her initiative, as if she bought a few formal clothes for Tang Wei this time, and she was also preparing for the next thing.
To be honest, Locke's image is also different from what Don only began to imagine.
She thought that Locke was a rich second generation, but it wasn't until later that she learned that he was actually an orphan, growing up in an orphanage, and she didn't know where he got so much money, but it was like running water when he spent it.
When I first gave myself tuition, I directly put $20,000 in a leather bag and threw it to myself as if it were just paper.