In January, the retiree contacted the mutual fund company involved for information about any capital gains paid in December and was told there had been a distribution, furthering confusing the investor.
Other analysts are known to have published reports praising companies to the skies, and then tell fund managers who ring up for more information to call back on a private mobile number - so the analysts can tell the fund manager (on a phone line that is not being tape recorded) to ignore the report and avoid the stock like plague.
She still provides shareholder information for a mutual fund company to help pay the rent.
The ICI was the primary source for information about the mutual fund industry that the SEC relied upon over the years.
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Trade unions and other groups of employees have since been calling for more information from pension-fund managers about how workers' money is faring.
But he traded that privilege for profit and provided information to Raj Rajaratnam, a hedge fund manager now serving an 11-year sentence for insider trading.
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While he was trading on the information for himself and Lyford Cay fund, a Bear Stearns colleague, Robert Babcock, 33, figured out the trading patterns and began to mimic Franklin's trading for his own account.
Buy-side traders for mutual fund empires, pension funds and banks see dark pools as the most likely place for information leakage.
The Icon Information Technology Fund pays a price for being a little more conservative than other tech funds.
Winifred Jiau (43), formerly a consultant to Primary Global Research, was found guilty today of passing along confidential information to hedge fund managers in exchange for payments.
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What kind of information could the hedge fund clients expect to hear for such a tiny sum of money?
There is a powerful opportunity for a vigorous industry taskforce whose role would be to fund and produce information campaigns.
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He also says the firm avoids anything that could be classified as inside information, a particularly sensitive topic these days for hedge fund managers.
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Freeman, who testified against Ms. Jiau at her trial in 2011, admitted to paying her thousands of dollars for inside information which resulted in millions in trade gains for his hedge fund.
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Agencies must incorporate security into the architecture of their information and systems to ensure that security supports agency business operations and that plans to fund and manage security are built into life-cycle budgets for information systems.
Further, most of the information mutual fund companies are required by law to maintain for SEC staff review during regularly scheduled inspections, records that are required for the protection of investors, is never made available to the public.
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Sometime after midnight on Monday, the 31st of October, the world population will hit the 7 billion mark for the first time, according to information made available by the UN Population Fund ( UNFPA).
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Bank gets data for ImpactSpace partly from his own reporting for ImpactIQ, along with information supplied by some partners, such as the Aspen Fund.
Like Chu, the case against Fleishman was that he was putting corporate insiders, with access to sensitive information on earnings and products, in contact with hedge fund managers for a fee.
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Rajaratnam was arrested in October 2009 and since then dozens of hedge fund managers and industry consultants have been subpoenaed by the government for the way they share information.
One of his friends, Winifred Jiau, wanted that type of information as well so that she could share it with eager hedge fund managers looking for an edge on their trades.
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And in a similar instance, a hedge fund manager was recently accused by Massachusetts regulators of paying a so-called expert consultant for advance information on a clinical trial (see this and this).
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These consultants were the real sources of information from inside of publicly traded companies and Primary Global played matchmaker with hedge fund managers looking for a hot tip.
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The hedge fund industry is on the edge of a transparency frontier, but the current practice for how the majority of information on large funds is being handled is inefficient at best.
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