Boston Globe – Prominent hedge fund firm Pequot Capital told investors on Wednesday it will shut down because of a reopened government probe into possible insider trading.
"Public disclosures about the continuing investigation have cast a cloud over the firm and have become a source of personal distraction," the firm’s founder Arthur Samberg, long one of the hedge fund industry’s best-known managers, wrote in a letter obtained by Reuters.
"With the situation increasingly untenable for the firm and for me, I have concluded that Pequot can no longer stay in business as an investment adviser."
