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04-12-2008, 09:24 AM
| | | Headstart Fund charged with bamboozling Potter tricks
The manager of a London-based hedge fund, Headstart Advisers, is facing legal action from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. financial regulator.
Najv Nasser is charged with illicitly trading shares in U.S. mutual funds. The SEC also alleges that subsidiaries with completely unrelated names were set up by the firm's employees in an attempt to conceal their indentities and to trick the U.S. mutual funds into accepting their trades. They claim that such subsidiaries were set up with names such as "Voldemort [sic] Ltd", as well as other less inventive names.
It is claimed that the fund manager has made over £100m by breaching market timing regulations and late trading between September of 1998 and September of 2003.
Representatives of the Headstart Fund have denied the charges.
Source: The Telegraph.co.uk
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O_o
I don't get it. xD
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04-12-2008, 10:58 AM
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| Sneaky Lucius Bowtruckle
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04-12-2008, 11:08 AM
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Some guys was trading shares when he wasn't allowed to. I think he says that he set up a business and called it "Voldemort LTD" so that it would be legal. But he's probably lying.
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04-12-2008, 11:31 AM
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It's like having multiple accounts on SS so that you can get more points in the RP, or something like that. It's against the rules, and you can get banned for it.
That's what's happening to Headstart Fund. Think of them with the offending member with 5 accounts, all in one house so that they can all attend class at one time and ALL get points at one time.
Think of the SEC as the SS staff who catch the member and ban them for a certain amount of time, while also getting rid of the other accounts.
That's the best way for me to explain it in SS terms. lol hope you understand.
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04-12-2008, 12:52 PM
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Oooh gotcha.
*pokes the dude hard*
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04-12-2008, 02:15 PM
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04-12-2008, 02:25 PM
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Wow. Shouldn't have done that now.
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04-12-2008, 02:42 PM
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Wow,that's insane!!!!!
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04-12-2008, 04:44 PM
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Heidi Sparks Second Year | Lion Pride  Very well put Nabiya! Shame on them for using the names as well.
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04-12-2008, 06:01 PM
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| | Chizpurfle
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Originally Posted by Nabiya It's like having multiple accounts on SS so that you can get more points in the RP, or something like that. It's against the rules, and you can get banned for it.
That's what's happening to Headstart Fund. Think of them with the offending member with 5 accounts, all in one house so that they can all attend class at one time and ALL get points at one time.
Think of the SEC as the SS staff who catch the member and ban them for a certain amount of time, while also getting rid of the other accounts.
That's the best way for me to explain it in SS terms. lol hope you understand. Thanks. I think I can get it now. :]
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Originally Posted by Nabiya It's like having multiple accounts on SS so that you can get more points in the RP, or something like that. It's against the rules, and you can get banned for it.
That's what's happening to Headstart Fund. Think of them with the offending member with 5 accounts, all in one house so that they can all attend class at one time and ALL get points at one time.
Think of the SEC as the SS staff who catch the member and ban them for a certain amount of time, while also getting rid of the other accounts.
That's the best way for me to explain it in SS terms. lol hope you understand. On top of that, they could sell to each other, artificially raising the price of the stock so that real investors ar paying much more than it's really worth and then reaping a windfall profit. When they sell off all their stock the price plummets and the real investors lose.
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04-12-2008, 07:07 PM
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The nerve of some people...
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04-12-2008, 10:38 PM
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....Bwahahahahaaaa Caught in the act! Crrrrime doesn't pay Quote:
Originally Posted by Nabiya It's like having multiple accounts on SS so that you can get more points in the RP, or something like that. It's against the rules, and you can get banned for it.
That's what's happening to Headstart Fund. Think of them with the offending member with 5 accounts, all in one house so that they can all attend class at one time and ALL get points at one time.
Think of the SEC as the SS staff who catch the member and ban them for a certain amount of time, while also getting rid of the other accounts.
That's the best way for me to explain it in SS terms. lol hope you understand. Wonderful explanation, Nabs! *applauds*
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04-13-2008, 01:33 AM
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What a stupid idea
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They used a name as Voldemort. Lol.
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04-13-2008, 05:11 AM
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how could he do something like that? theres always two sides to every story.
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Lol, I don't get this either.
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| George's Ear Mooncalf
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Okay, call me thick, but I've read all the explanations and I STILL don't get it o.O sorry.
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04-13-2008, 05:26 PM
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04-13-2008, 06:25 PM
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cheaters never win!!!
how stupid can you get?
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04-13-2008, 08:43 PM
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confused much
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04-13-2008, 09:14 PM
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| LPFC Pressie Runespoor
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and they thought a name like Voldemort LTD wouldn't get caught and inspected???
wow. nerds. stupidest nerds ever. haha. glad they got caught.
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