Word: investor
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...court list was compiled by AlixPartners LLP, of Dallas, and includes investor names and addresses but not the amount invested with Madoff. AlixPartners was hired as claims agent by the trustee, Irving H. Picard, who is overseeing the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities...
...Robert Chew is a former investor with Madoff via a feeder fund. He lives in Colorado...
...second half of his testimony, both oral and written, Markopolos outlined his recommendations for fixing the SEC. Markopolos said that "right now investors are afraid." He cited investor fears of banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms, credit rating agencies, investment manager, and the country's regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve and the Treasury. In a backhanded compliment, Markopolos said the SEC is a "bad regulator, but the best of a very sorry lot," though at one point he also suggested that it might be better to disband it or merge it with another agency. The bigger fix, he said...
...scary outcome when you're talking about public health, but our economy needs people willing to give up certainty for the possibility of grand success. Of course, some people take on too much risk: the day trader who loses his house; the hedge funder who turns an investor's life savings into dust overnight. But right now policymakers should not be afraid of stoking our anger--and therefore our risk-taking. As Lerner has written, anger is associated with a desire to "change a situation for the better...
...draw on personal experience as he crafts his research project, which will focus on “the conflicts between editors and owners of newspapers.” O’Shea was leading the L.A. Times when it was taken over by Sam Zell, a billionaire real-estate investor, who many criticized for cutting content and jobs in response to the paper’s deteriorating financial situation...