Posts belonging to Category Hedge Funds
Posted by Page PerryonFebruary 2, 2012
The London investment company, Centaur, which launched its Galileo fund to provide investors with the opportunity to generate returns through none other than sports betting has collapsed resulting in what is reported to be a 100% loss with investors holding the bag for about $2.5 million.
Categories: Brokerage Firms, Hedge Funds, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 30, 2012
Given the array of exotic alternative investments being sold to the public, it’s logical that many investors often don’t understand what they are buying. What is even scarier is that it is likely their professional investment adviser doesn’t understand the alternative investment either. Investment advisers ? 75 percent of them ? admit they do not […]
Categories: Alternative Funds, Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Closed End Funds, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Derivatives, Early Retirement Scams, Elder Abuses, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Fairness/Just & Equitable Conduct, Hedge Funds, High Yield (Junk) Bonds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, Life Policies/Viatical Settlements, Limited Partnerships, Misrepresentation/Omission, Mortgage Backed Securities, Nontraded REITs, Oil & Gas, Preferred Stocks, Private Investments/Reg D, REITs, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Structured Notes, Tenant-in-Common Interests, Unsuitable Recommendations, Variable Annuities and Equity-Indexed Annuities
Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 23, 2012
The amount of dollars at stake in FINRA securities arbitrations has grown in recent years. Of the 7,000 claims currently pending, approximately 200 involve claims of $10 million or more. “The claims coming in now are substantially larger than what we had a few years ago,” Linda Fienberg, president of FINRA Dispute Resolution, was quoted […]
Categories: Auction Rate Securities, Bank of America, Brokerage Firms, Citigroup Hedge Funds, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Credit Suisse, Fairness/Just & Equitable Conduct, Hedge Funds, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, Merrill Lynch, Misrepresentation/Omission, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, UBS, Unsuitable Recommendations
Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 20, 2012
Federal prosecutors have been putting a full court press on insider trading by hedge funds over the past four years. They recently announced the filing of criminal charges against seven more individuals, including hedge fund executives and portfolio managers, as well as guilty pleas by three cooperating defendants of Level Global Investors LP and mutual […]
Categories: Hedge Funds, Insider Trading, Investigations, Securities
Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 3, 2012
One former Wall Street hedge fund executive has just published a book in which he claims that investors would have done twice as well as hedge fund investors by investing in U.S. Treasuries over the past decade. Twice as well. Simon Lack, whose book is titled “Hedge Fund Mirage,” is a former hedge fund executive […]
Categories: Alternative Funds, Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Hedge Funds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonDecember 27, 2011
The Securities and Exchange Commission has implemented a strategy of using computer analyses to identify hedge funds and other firms whose claimed investment performance figures warrant special scrutiny for possible fraud. Working on the theory that, if the performance seems too good to be true, maybe it is, the SEC has commenced lawsuits and investigations […]
Categories: A General Overview, Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Fairness/Just & Equitable Conduct, Hedge Funds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, Misrepresentation/Omission, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonDecember 14, 2011
Promoters of fraudulent investments are targeting the 77 million baby boomers in the U.S. who make up 25 percent of the population, according to securities regulators and prosecutors (“Boomers Wearing Bull’s-Eyes,” Wall Street Journal, Kelly Greene). Regulators expect to file a record number of enforcement actions involving investors age 50 years and older, as financial […]
Categories: Affinity Fraud, Alternative Investments, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Elder Abuses, Hedge Funds, Investor Alerts, Ponzi Schemes, Regulatory Developments
Posted by Page PerryonDecember 2, 2011
Wiretaps of hundreds of conversations have led federal authorities to pursue charges against individuals at two well-known hedge funds and an established mutual fund that caters to ordinary retail investors. The targets are former traders at hedge funds Diamondback Capital management LLC and Level Global Investors LP, and an analyst at mutual fund company Neuberger […]
Categories: Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Hedge Funds, Insider Trading, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Mutual Funds, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 30, 2011
A recent Bloomberg Markets Magazine article raises troubling questions about investment corruption at the highest levels of government. In July 2008, as market fears mounted, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson reportedly met with a group of hedge fund managers (five of whom were former officers of Goldman Sachs, where Paulson was CEO), and described a scenario […]
Categories: Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Hedge Funds, Insider Trading, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Preferred Stocks, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Stocks
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 15, 2011
Forty percent of hedge fund investors are dissatisfied with their returns, and eighty percent are considering changing fund managers, but 38% plan to increase the amount of their hedge fund investments over the next year, according to the Wall Street Journal (“Investors Disappointed with Hedge Funds, But Sticking With Them”), citing a recent survey.
Categories: Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Hedge Funds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
