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On December 3, 2003, the SEC proposed new rules to stop after-hours trading in mutual funds. [9] [10] On December 18, 2003, the SEC “announced an enforcement action against Alliance Capital Management L.P. (Alliance Capital) for defrauding mutual fund investors. The SEC ordered Alliance Capital to pay $250 million.
There were no accusations or evidence of the illegal late trading which factored in several other cases of the 2003 mutual fund scandal. On November 17, 2004, the S.E.C. announced a settlement which forbade Pilgrim and Baxter from publicly denying wrongdoing, and required each to personally pay US$80 million while PBA would pay US$90 million ...
Strong Capital Management, Inc, was a financial services firm based in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. During its 30-year existence, it acquired other companies [1] and expanded into the Israeli market. [2] However, it became defunct after the 2003 mutual fund scandal amid charges of improper mutual fund trading.
On June 16, 2009, Judge Burton Lifland approved the settlement between Picard and Banco Santander SA's Optimal Investment Services. The Optimal SUS fund, one of Madoff's largest feeder funds, agreed to pay $235 million, about 85% of the $285 million that the Geneva-based hedge fund group redeemed in the 90 days before Madoff was arrested. As of ...
The Madoff investment scandal was a major case of stock and securities fraud discovered in late 2008. [1] In December of that year, Bernie Madoff, the former Nasdaq chairman and founder of the Wall Street firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, admitted that the wealth management arm of his business was an elaborate multi-billion ...
Robert Lee Vesco (December 4, 1935 – November 23, 2007 [1]) was an American criminal financier. After several years of risky investments and dubious credit dealings, Vesco was alleged to have committed securities fraud. He immediately fled the ensuing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation by living in a number of Central ...
On July 20, 2009, Justice Edward Alexander Bannister granted the request to liquidate the Fairfield Sentry funds, worth more than $7.2 billion in December 2008, now less than $70 million, incorporated in 1990 under the mutual fund statutes of the British Virgin Islands and technically under the control of their local directors.
Bernie Madoff. Participants in the Madoff investment scandal included employees of Bernard Madoff 's investment firm with specific knowledge of the Ponzi scheme, a three-person accounting firm that assembled his reports, and a network of feeder funds that invested their clients' money with Madoff while collecting significant fees.