Dallas Morning News – An investor in a Perot family hedge fund has sued the Perot Family Trust and several related parties, saying they grossly mismanaged the fund, which went bust in November after starting the year with $2.5 billion in net assets.

Southern Avenue Partners LP said the fund – Bermuda-chartered Parkcentral Global Hub Ltd. – collapsed despite reassurances to investors that its trading strategies would protect it from deep losses. The hedge fund didn’t hedge, the complaint alleges.

"As a result of defendants’ breach of fiduciary duty, the Global Fund imploded," said the lawsuit, referring to Parkcentral Global Hub. "The Global Fund’s net asset value went from over $2.5 billion to less than zero.

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Dallas Morning News – To bank employees monitoring the hedge fund’s collapse, the e-mailed instructions were emphatic.

"No securities, or cash, FOR ANY REASON are allowed to be sent out from JP Morgan."

At issue that morning last November were the accounts of Parkcentral Global Hub Ltd., a Bermuda-chartered fund run from Plano and Dallas by the Perot family, one of the richest families in the world. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. was the fund’s banker and a trading partner.

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