BANKRUPT BANKER
Canadian hedge fund manager running $53-million -- who had been posting stellar commodities returns, despite the commodities collapse
Saturday, 13 December 2008
According to a complaint filed by the Ontario Securities Commission, a Canadian hedge fund manager running $53-million -- who had been posting stellar commodities returns, despite the commodities collapse -- turns out to have obtained those returns by putting his fund's assets into two Luxembourg companies that own rights to glaciers in Iceland. Neither company had revenues (or profits), but, according to the complaint, the hedge fund manager had marked them up regularly all the same, thus producing lovely and eye-pleasing returns for investors. The twist -- and you knew this was coming -- is that the Canadian hedge fund manager (who now mostly lives in Iceland, despite his fund being out of Toronto) allegedly had a significant stake in the companies when his fund bought their shares. But of course he did.
