{"id":18387,"date":"2010-10-20T07:21:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T11:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=18387"},"modified":"2010-10-20T07:30:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T11:30:40","slug":"hedge-fund-managers-sued-by-sec-in-side-pocket-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2010\/hedge-fund-managers-sued-by-sec-in-side-pocket-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Managers Sued By SEC In Side Pocket Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The SEC has sued two Georgia hedge fund managers, Bloomberg reports, alleging that Paul Mannion and Andrew Reckles overvalued their illiquid assets, hiding losses while collecting fees.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC claims Mannion and Reckles stole up to $1.6 million by inflating the value of a stake in the hedge fund World Health Alternatives Inc. To keep clients from redeeming their investments, the managers moved the holdings into a side pocket*, the SEC said, according to Bloomberg. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/displayimage.php_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18391\" title=\"SEC sues Hedge Fund Managers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/displayimage.php_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSide pockets are not supposed to be a dumping ground for hedge-fund managers to conceal overvalued assets,\u201d Robert Kaplan, co-head of the SEC unit that polices asset managers, said, according to the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The two hedge fund managers \u201cstrongly deny\u201d the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>*The holdings in a side pocket have to be sold before redemption.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The SEC has sued two Georgia hedge fund managers, Bloomberg reports, alleging that Paul Mannion and Andrew Reckles overvalued their illiquid assets, hiding losses while collecting fees. The SEC claims Mannion and Reckles stole up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16005,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developing-stories","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18389,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18387\/revisions\/18389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}