Tag Archives: securities-and-exchange-commission
Hedge Fund Manager to Appear in Court
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund manager Arthur Nadel is scheduled for a bail hearing in federal court in Tampa this afternoon. Nadel faces a federal charge of securities and wire fraud after using “manipulative and deceptive devices” to […]
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 […]
New York Exec Nailed for Alleged $400 Million Ponzi Scheme
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Nicholas Cosmo, head of New York-based Agape World Inc., has been arrested for allegedly running a $400 million Ponzi scheme. His company, which marketed commercial bridge loans, was not registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange […]
Gaps in oversight let Nadel avoid scrutiny
Sarasota Herald-Tribune – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has hundreds of pages of complicated rules governing investment advisers. But the agency — under fire for failing to stop New York hedge fund manager Bernard Madoff and his alleged $50 […]
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 […]
Suspected NYSE insider trading rose in 2008
Reuters – Suspected insider trading cases reached an all-time high last year, driven less by hedge funds and more by pillow talk between relatives and friends, the head of surveillance at the New York Stock Exchange said on Wednesday. In […]
Florida Hedge Fund Manager Missing Along with Investors Cash
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Authorities are still searching for missing hedge fund manager and philanthropist Arthur Nadel after he vanished from his Sarasota home last week, while investors are searching for their $350 million they had tied up with him. […]
Bankrupt Tulsa Execs Receive Over $3 Milllion in Bonuses
West Palm Beach – A pair of SemGroup LP executives are the only two administrators named to receive bonuses from both the bankrupt Tulsa company and its publicly held and struggling subsidiary, SemGroup Energy Partners LP, tulsaworld.com first reported Thursday. […]
Blackstone Man Targeted by SEC for Insider Trading
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – A Blackstone Group executive has been sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after allegedly fronting an insider trading scam that involved supermarket chain Albertsons. According to the complaint, Managing Director Ramesh Chakrapani tipped off […]
Samberg’s Pequot Said to Face New SEC Insider-Trading Inquiry
Bloomberg – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened a new investigation into whether Pequot Capital Management Inc., the hedge fund run by Arthur Samberg, illegally profited in 2001 by tapping inside information on Microsoft Corp., two people familiar with […]
