Boston Globe – Secretary of State William F. Galvin is investigating Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.’s relationship with a hedge fund operation that lost $3.3 billion to admitted swindler Bernard L. Madoff.
Galvin, who oversees the state Securities Division, said his office is looking into MassMutual as part of an ongoing probe of investment firms that placed clients’ funds with Madoff. The division is examining whether MassMutual did enough to safeguard its customers’ money.
Springfield-based MassMutual owns Tremont Advisers Inc., a Rye, N.Y., hedge fund firm that sustained the second-biggest loss of all the confessed swindler’s clients.
