Federal prosecutors recently indicted five long-time employees of Madoff Investment Securities LLC on 33 counts.
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Jeffry Picower, who died in 2009, was the biggest beneficiary of the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities fraud.
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The scheme was carried out in Madoff's investment advisory operation, which occupied office space immediately below the offices of his broker-dealer, Bernard Madoff Investment Securities.
Virtually all of the investment securities owned by Annaly are issued and guaranteed by U.S. Government Agencies and carry an actual or implied AAA rating.
The younger Madoff was named in a lawsuit filed in New York and London on Wednesday, for his role as a former director of Madoff Investment Securities.
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Mark and Andrew were employees of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, though they worked in the trading section, allegedly separate from the fraudulent investment management and advisory divisions.
The majority of these investments are in fixed income securities like government and corporate bonds and the remainder in equity securities, mortgage loans, policy loans and other investment securities.
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Madoff, 70, operated the advisory business separately from his Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, a securities broker dealer with its principal office in New York City, the Department of Justice said.
The co-liquidator of the biggest feeder fund for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities says some investors in the Fairfield Sentry funds had knowledge of the massive financial fraud and profited as a result.
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Said wind-down began more or less with the revelation of massive securities fraud at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, Inc. in December 2008, which negatively impacted certain funds FGA (or a related person) had been advising.
The former chief compliance officer of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities was in court in Manhattan today and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and one count of falsifying records.
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Plus, there is no secondary market for these assets, so "you're toast if you need to sell" before the properties are ultimately resold, says Brandon Balkman, executive director of the Real Estate Investment Securities Association, a trade group.
Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals.
The savings is what flows into the financial markets through bank deposits or investment in securities.
"I think it's hard to say that the economy is turning around as export growth completely halted, " said Jun Min-Kyoo, an economist at Korea Investment and Securities.
The calculation does not include portfolio investment into securities.
Most portfolio investments consist of investment in securities in the primary and secondary markets, including shares, debentures and warrants of companies listed or to be listed on a recognized stock exchange in India.
"The positive sentiment from 'Gangnam Style' has attracted investors just because of the fact that the company is owned by Psy's father and uncle, " Lee Sun-tae, a researcher at NH Investment and Securities, recently told Reuters.
If an investor were to give us a dollar to invest, the positions that he would control would be possibly in excess of the dollar that he gave us, even though that 75 cents is part in investment grade securities.
"The quarterly figures at face value may appear healthy, but the picture becomes a little bleaker once it's broken down by monthly performance, with growth seen steadily slowing into February and March after a strong January, " said Jeon Min-Kyoo of Korea Investment and Securities.
The willingness to take a chance on blemished credits pushed below-investment grade securities above par value for the first time since before the financial crisis, up from a nadir of 55 cents on the dollar in December of 2008, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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No more lawsuits against parent companies or investment advisers related to securities fraud perpetrated by the investment fund in question, they are saying.
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Chinese investment trust Citic Securities, up 481%, leads the list of Global 2000 stock market stars.
The expected credit risk premium over inflation from investment-grade securities is also expected to remain stable.
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Americans running distressed-securities investment boutiques pressed the trustee to sue its half-owner over the collateral guarantee.
Prudential regulations on pension funds' investment can be relaxed to allow more investment in private securities.
The vehicle of choice for such efforts is the Undertaking for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS).
Indexing clusters investment assets in securities which represent past success, are widely owned, and often fully valued.
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