Archive for the ‘fund’ Category

Samsung’s art slush fund

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee set up a $225 million slush fund to buy art for his art museum director wife.

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The hedge fund, the stripper and the missing millions

Friday, October 19th, 2007

In Canada, a hedge fund manager Paul Eustace made the wrong call on US interest rates, lied to investors, lost $208-million, stole about $2 million of client cash, cheated on his wife with a stripper for years and used investor money to give that stripper $1-million worth of gifts including breast augmentation surgery.

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Gen Y and the looming funds management crisis

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

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Fund managers have ridden the coat-tails of the baby boomers, ignoring the next generation of clients and that could create enormous problems for the financial services industry.

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