Clinton's campaign said on Monday that the arrest and allegations that Hsu engaged in an illegal investment scheme aided the decision to return the funds.
In criminal cases a judge may not always order the return of funds and even when they do the case may have only been heard on a small sample of the fraud committed.
PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, which have consistently insisted their operations do not violate U.S. law, have since suspended their U.S. operations and cut deals with federal prosecutors to facilitate the return of funds to online poker players in the U.S. One of the 11 people indicted, Bradley Frazen, recently pleaded guilty and said he had improperly processed financial transactions for online poker companies.
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Another big factor: lower U.S. interest rates, which could lead to easier money in Asia and the return of American funds to the region's markets.
The problem is that the average return of those funds over the past year was a pitiful 0.02%.
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It is time for the federal government to get out of this business and return the responsibility, and funds, to the states.
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The two sides managed to put aside their differences long enough to hammer out an agreement that facilitated the return of funds to U.S. players.
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Gramercy Capital believes that the best way to recover the money you have lost in recent years is to return your funds to the stock market.
The extra return from the 25 percent winning funds is relatively low compared to the underperformance of the other 75 percent.
Part of the fear that drives investors to products such as variable annuities, equity-indexed annuities, and the false promises of active management (including absolute return funds) is the misplaced fear of the recent lost decade in the performance of stocks.
The average return for the 9, 402 mutual funds tracked by Morningstar was a negative 17.8 percent for the quarter.
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When averaged, the rate of return on public and private funds would allow the bank to make low interest loans.
In 2005 Britain had the edge in performance, returning an average of 16.15%, almost twice the return of American funds.
Of 8 absolute return funds on the market during the 2008 financial crisis, only one ended the year with a positive return, albeit a slight one at only 1.1%.
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The question is whether hedge funds will again return to the old Wall Street fold.
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The sales effort is a way to reduce exposure to some of the high-risk, high-return property funds that got scuffed up during the financial crisis, said Timothy Walsh, director of the New Jersey Division of Investment, which manages the state's pension money.
The interest payments they had been receiving were merely a return of their own capital or the funds of various other lenders in the project.
REITs offer investors a middle way between the high-risk, high-return vulture funds and stodgy, low-return Japanese property developers, such as those attached to the Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo keiretsu.
Some of the hot money that poured out of hedge funds could easily return at the first sign of stability.
Should they fail to do this, the government has the right to convert into voting shares the paper it took in return for its injection of public funds into the banking system a couple of years ago.
The ten-year annualized return on its stock funds: 18%, three points better than the industry average.
That is an immediate 100% return on your invested funds, plus any ongoing investment return in the portfolio.
Many companies have lowered to 6-7% the return they expect to generate from the investments in their pension funds.
The median fund in this group had a 17% return, and even the five poorest-performing funds posted gains.
Naturally, your return depends on the performance of the funds and the fees you're charged, which in broker-sold 529s can be steep.
The average return on money market funds is now 0.19 percent.
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If you want your investing to be based on advice from the brightest minds in investing, listen to Swensen and think twice about the promise of absolute return funds.
When big institutional investors were recently polled at a recent Goldman Sachs hedge fund conference about their return outlook for hedge funds, the overwhelming majority of them said they expected single digit returns in 2013.
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The Feds further alleged that Lowrance had fraudulently misstated the expected return on and risk involved with Forex investments and the use of funds raised from investors.
During the early years of the financial downturn, the value of high-risk, high-return real-estate funds fell 54% from their peak at the end of 2007 to the bottom in 2009, according to an index tracked by the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries.
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