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Hedge funds accept controls

The Columbus Dispatch – The hedge-fund industry, battered and humbled by the market downturn, no longer is planning to fight an increased role for government in regulating and inspecting the secretive investment pools.   Opposition has melted away as the […]

Craigslist: Fall Guy For Your Hedge Fund

The Consumerist – Humor – If you need a scapegoat for your financial ponzi scheme, there’s a guy on Craigslist who’s looking for a job: Is your hedge fund in dire financial straits? Are you totally screwed and now realizing […]

Inquiry started of financier who invested with Madoff

International Herald Tribune – J. Ezra Merkin, a New York financier, wrote his investors last month that he too was shocked by the news that Bernard Madoff’s hedge fund was an elaborate Ponzi scheme. But not everyone sees him as a […]