Tag Archives: securities-and-exchange
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 Funds Could Be Forced To Register With SEC Under New Bill
All Headline News – Hedge funds will require registering under a new proposal to regulate the market segment that lost $600 billion in 2008 due to financial crisis, an all time record. Under the bill by two senators today would […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
US regulators probed Madoff eight times over 16 years
MSN Money UK – Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC was examined at least eight times in 16 years by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other regulators, who often came armed with suspicions, the Wall Street Journal […]
Hedge funds bet on regulations
The Washington Times – Hedge-fund managers say Bernard L. Madoff may succeed where Christopher Cox failed: forcing regulation of their $1.5 trillion industry. Mr. Madoff’s purported bilking of investors by up to $50 billion begins to uncover a part of […]
