Tag Archives: fraud
States urge Congress to regulate hedge funds
Reuters – State regulators urged Congress on Thursday to restore their authority to protect investors from fraud in the banking sector and to beef up oversight of hedge funds. Hedge fund advisers should be subject to the same kind of […]
Hedge fund Steel Partners seeks to dismiss Icahn suit
Reuters – Steel Partners this week asked a Delaware court to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the hedge fund firm by billionaire investor Carl Icahn, saying he is "looking for a scapegoat" for investment losses that happened as the financial […]
Judges refuse Yorkshire plea on assets freeze
YorkshirePost – High Court judges yesterday refused an appeal brought by a man from Yorkshire whose assets were frozen in connection with an investigation by American financial regulators. Glenn Manterfield, from Sheffield, is under investigation by the United States Securities […]
Elliott Hedge Fund Bought Fictitious Securities From Dreier
Bloomberg – Elliott Management Corp., the $12.8 billion hedge-fund firm founded by Paul Singer 32 years ago, told clients that it bought securities from Marc Dreier, the New York lawyer jailed for alleged fraud. Elliott lost money on promissory notes […]
SEC charges missing money manager Nadel with fraud
PR Inside – Federal regulators on Wednesday charged a missing hedge fund manager with fraud, saying he misled investors and overstated the value of investments in the six funds by about $300 million. The Securities and Exchange Commission won a court […]
Israel Girlfriend Pleads Not Guilty to Aiding Escape
Bloomberg – Debra Ryan, the girlfriend of Samuel Israel, the convicted founder of hedge-fund firm Bayou Group LLC charged with bail jumping, pleaded not guilty to helping him escape. Israel, 49, is accused of faking his suicide and fleeing the day […]
ACF, Bank of America Sue Hedge Fund Steel Partners
CNNMoney.com – ACF Industries and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) are suing hedge fund Steel Partners, accusing the fund of fraud by failing to tell investors of plans to go public, Reuters reported Wednesday. Reuters says ACF, which court documents […]
Inspector General investigating Boston and New York SEC offices in in wake of Markopolos allegations
Examiner.com – David Kotz, Securities and Exchange Commission Inspector General, told the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services last week he was determined to learn "the reasons for the SEC’s apparent failure to act" on repeated warnings about Bernard Madoff’s massive […]
Viewpoint: Madoff scandal makes case against regulation
Baltimore Sun – If there is anything we have learned from the crisis in the financial sector, it’s the urgent need for more regulation. Had federal regulators been more vigilant or wielded greater powers, all this suffering and heartache might […]
Outsourcing at hedge funds on the march
International Herald Tribune – It used to be that if you wanted a job done properly, you did it yourself. That no longer holds for the administration of hedge funds. The practice of doing middle- and back-office administrative work in-house, especially […]
UBP wants independent hedge fund administrators
Reuters – Swiss private bank Union Bancaire Privee (UBP) may pull client money out of hedge funds unless they set up independent administrators, the Financial Times said on Wednesday. The Geneva-based bank, one of the world’s largest investors in hedge […]
Exclusive Mutual Funds Reopen for Business
Time – Here’s one upside to a down market: a number of historically prominent mutual funds that long ago shut their doors to new investors are reopening. It’s been years since anyone without an existing account could put money into […]
