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		<title>U.S. agencies fine Amaranth hedge fund $15 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; Amaranth Advisors, the largest collapsed hedge fund in history, has been ordered to pay $15 million in civil fines for attempting to manipulate natural gas markets, federal agencies said on Wednesday. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it settled charges against Amaranth and the fund has been ordered to pay a $7.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30-Something Hedge Fund Billionaire Urges Energy Market Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Business Insider &#8211; We&#8217;re eagerly awaiting the testimony of energy fund billionaire John Arnold before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission today, and not just for the obvious reasons. Former Enron trader Arnold presumably became the second-youngest self-made billionaire in the country in part by exploiting the same speculation spree that two years ago caused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hyland Says ‘Gibberish’ to Cite Fund for Price Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; John Hyland, chief investment officer for the world&#8217;s largest exchange-traded fund in natural gas, said assertions that his company helped drive up energy prices were &#8221;self-serving statistical gibberish.&#8221; &#8221;Any time someone tells you that common sense tells you something, that just means they don&#8217;t have the data to support it,&#8221; Hyland said in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big oil speculator defends practice in Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Advertiser &#8211; John Hyland&#8217;s funds control billions of dollars that flow in and out of energy markets, making him one of the biggest oil speculators in the world and also one of the biggest potential targets for federal regulators. The 50-year-old Californian has been asked to appear before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major U.S. exchange chief urges SEC-CFTC merger</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; The two main regulators of U.S. financial markets should merge, the chief executive of America&#8217;s largest options exchange says in remarks to be delivered to a congressional panel on Friday. William Brodsky, CEO of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), says in a written statement that there is a &#34;compelling need for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. regulator to identify hedge fund bets in commods</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; The regulator of U.S. commodity markets said on Tuesday his agency&#8217;s weekly Commitments of Traders report will be revamped to include hedge fund positions for better transparency. &#34;Enhancing the quality of information in these weekly reports will better inform market participants and the public about the positions of the various types of traders,&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Hedge Fund Manager Indicted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times &#8211; The managing director of a collapsed Chicago hedge fund, Lake Shore Asset Management, was indicted by a federal grand jury. Prosecutors say the director, Philip J. Baker, operated a $300 million fraud. The 27-count indictment was unsealed on Monday, said Patrick J. Fitzgerald, a United States attorney, in a statement on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A fund manager who protested too much</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/a-fund-manager-who-protested-too-much.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globe and Mail &#8211; When Mark Bloom was arrested last week in New York for allegedly bilking clients of North Hills Fund, the case marked a new low in the hedge fund world. Not just because Mr. Bloom had allegedly stolen $13.2-million (U.S.) from investors, sent false financial statements and lied repeatedly about the fund&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Hedge Fund Manager Bilks $10.9 Million From 250 Investors</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Hedge fund manager Ray M. White and his company, CRW Management, LP, have been charged today by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission of swindling at least $10.9 million from over 250 investors through an alleged Ponzi scheme. The complaint alleges that the Mansfield, Texas-based White, told investors their funds would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Flags, New Evidence May Help Convict Deaf Ponzi Schemer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Marvin Cooper, who allegedly swindled deaf investors through his money management firm-turned Ponzi scheme, is maintaining his innocence despite new evidence uncovered Monday in federal court. &#160; &#34;Nobody&#8217;s been defrauded,&#34; Cooper&#8217;s attorney, Michael Glenn told the Honolulu Advisor. &#34;We&#8217;re working on an amicable settlement in which the investors will get all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho Man Nailed for Manning $40 Million Ponzi Scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Idaho Falls resident Daren L. Palmer has been charged with operating a $40 million Ponzi scheme through his unregistered company, Trigon Group, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Palmer is being charged with solicitation fraud and misappropriation of pool funds after it was discovered he used client funds for personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two New York Money Managers Charged with Futures Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>SEC Nails Ponzi Scheme Aimed at Deaf Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The SEC has located and halted a Ponzi scheme targeted primarily at deaf individuals in the United States and Japan. According to the complaint, Hawaii-based Billion Coupons, Inc. along with its CEOMarvin R. Cooper was able to raise $4.4 million from 125 investors by holding seminars at Deaf community centers.&#160; Cooper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Commissioner Urges Greater Regulation of Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar said his agency should be given the authority to regulate hedge funds after urging Congress &#8220;to close the glaring loopholes in securities regulation.&#8221; Aguilar, one of the agency&#8217;s five commissioners, is among many who are calling for greater oversight in an industry that has been ravaged by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cox Gives Support for Merger of SEC, CFTC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; SEC Chairman Christopher Cox said he was all for a merger between the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Hopping on board with U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, this was the first time Cox has publically supported a merger that was first brought to the table years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil speculators held great sway over prices, data suggest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times &#8211; Regulators had long classified a private Swiss energy conglomerate called Vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examined Vitol&#8217;s books last month, it found that the firm was in fact more of a speculator, holding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds gloomy on oil, CFTC data show</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MarketWatch &#8211; For the first time in 17 months, hedge funds in July made more bets on oil prices falling than rising, according to the latest government data. &#160; Short positions from noncommercial investors, hedge funds and other large investors that don&#8217;t actually take delivery of oil, surpassed long positions in July for the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Funds Cut Oil Bets as Prices Rose, CFTC Probed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg- Hedge-fund managers and speculators reduced bets on higher oil prices by 80 percent since July as crude futures rose to records and U.S. regulators started investigating trading, government data show. So-called speculative net long positions fell to 25,867 contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange in the week ended May 27 from a record [...]]]></description>
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