{"id":7996,"date":"2008-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-fraud-cover-offered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2008\/hedge-fund-fraud-cover-offered.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund fraud cover offered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times- When hedge fund manager and convicted fraudster Samuel Israel III disappeared this month, leaving nothing but the message &quot;suicide is painless&quot; scrawled in the dust on his car, you can be sure his life assurer did not pay out &#8211; not least because police believe he was trying to fake his death.<\/p>\n<p>Another type of insurance policy might soon help investors caught up in scams such as the $400m Mr Israel sucked out of Bayou Management.<\/p>\n<p>At the least, the new products being created should provide hedge fund investors with peace of mind amid widespread fear of fraud in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Today, a second insurance product begins offering hedge fund investors cover for fraud losses, as Integro, a New York insurance broker, and Amber Partners, a risk rating agency for the industry, aim to capitalize on the fear of swindlers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/424e68c8-463c-11dd-9009-0000779fd2ac.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times- When hedge fund manager and convicted fraudster Samuel Israel III disappeared this month, leaving nothing but the message &quot;suicide is painless&quot; scrawled in the dust on his car, you can be sure his life assurer did not pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1159,1157,767,768,1156,406,1155,1158],"class_list":["post-7996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-1159","tag-american-homeowners","tag-cnn-sports-illustrated","tag-doors","tag-fund-investor","tag-investment-funds","tag-mortgage-markets","tag-wilber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}