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Tiger Global Parts Ways with Partner Who Caused Massive Losses

June 18, 2022 /
Tiger Global Sam Harland
Market News: Tiger Global parts ways with Sam Harland

Tiger Global just parted ways with Sam Harland, the partner responsible for sinking the hedge fund when it betted on Carvana.

The hedge fund suffered 52% in losses this year through May.

Their average cost basis is $105.80, more than five times the $24.27 level the stock closed on Friday.

Both Harland and Tiger Global Management declined to comment on his departure according to Bloomberg.

Here’s the latest market news.

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Hedge funds struggle to stay afloat

Hedge funds seem to be stranded on a sinking ship as losses accumulate this year.

One hedge fund who betted against GameStop is closing this month.

Last year many hedge funds were forced to cut their losses and throw in the towel on losing bets.

Tiger Global Management closed 2021 with a 7% loss.

They reported a 52% loss this year through May.

Tiger Management Losses
Tiger Global Management losses (blue) | Tiger Global Management News

The hedge fund may be on track for its worst year yet.

Earlier this year we saw Citadel and other hedge funds faced default on Russian bonds from tech company Yandex.

Investors tried pulling out $250 million from Coatue Management but the hedge fund couldn’t meet investors demands.

Aside from the shorting of ‘meme stocks’, hedge funds are also getting burned from tech stocks falling.

The NASDAQ has fallen nearly -32% this year-to-date taking down every major tech company down with it.

Amazon (AMZN) is down more than -37% this year, Tesla (TSLA) -45%, and Apple (AAPL ) -27.72%.

Carvana is down nearly -90%, one of the heaviest held assets by Tiger Global Management.

Tiger Cubs ditch positions

The Tiger Cubs alliance consists of Tiger Global Management, Lone Pine Capital, Coatue Management, Maverick Capital, Viking Global Investors and D1 Capital.

According to Bloomberg, majority of the Tiger Cubs stock picks are in tech stocks.

Tiger Global exited 83 positions depicted in the chart below and entered only 2 new positions.

Tiger Cubs ditch positions
Tiger Cubs ditch positions

The Tiger Cubs have been known for piling into the same or similar stocks primarily because they all had the same mentor.

Below is a list of only some tech companies the Tiger Cubs have recently reduced from their positions.

Big name companies include Carvana, DoorDash, Netflix, and Shopify to name a few.

Tiger Cubs Losses
Tiger Cubs Losses | Tiger Global Management News

These companies might have been extremely convenient during the pandemic lockdowns, but the truth is people are going out now.

Now that gyms are open to the public, people have no need for Peloton.

Netflix couldn’t replace the movie theatres, and so on.

Some experiences are simply irreplaceable.

And it’s showing in tech company stock.

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Hedge Fund Tiger Global on Brink of Shutting Down?

June 2, 2022 /
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Market News: Hedge Fund Tiger Global down more than 50% this year.

Hedge fund Tiger Global is on the brink of collapsing.

WSJ reports the hedge fund is lost 52% for the year up to May.

It was down 34% this year through March but the institution keeps sinking.

Melvin Capital threw in the towel after suffering several losses this year.

Is hedge fund Tiger Global the next one to go?

Let’s discuss it.

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Hedge fund empires crumble

Melvin Capital lost a staggering 20.6% the first quarter this year alone.

In 2021, they took a heavier hit with 50% in losses.

Now Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital is shutting down end of June.

The Tiger Cubs, an alliance consisting of hedge fund Tiger Global Management, Lone Pine Capital, Coatue Management, Maverick Capital, Viking Global Investors and D1 Capital are facing massive losses this year too.

According to Bloomberg, majority of the Tiger Cubs stock picks are in tech stocks.

Which as we know, have been plummeting all year.

Tiger Global exited 83 positions depicted in the chart below and entered only 2 new positions.

Coatue Management is another hedge fund who has been struggling to keep its doors open this year.

Last year investors demanded to pull out $250 million from the hedge fund but Coatue was unable to meet demands.

Coatue said the money they could not deliver to their clients was being held in private companies, making it difficult to liquidate.

Today we see Coatue Management exited 35 stocks and only entered 12 so far.

The rest of the cubs aren’t doing so well with everyone exiting more positions than entering them.

Hence the reason why we’ve seen the market fall all year.

Will hedge fund Tiger Global close?

Tiger Global Hedge Fund

Although the hedge fund has wiped out more than $16 billion in assets under management, Tiger Global continues to hold on.

“We take very seriously that our recent performance does not live up to the standards we have set for ourselves over the last 21 years and that you rightfully expect. Our team remains maximally motivated to earn back recent losses,” the hedge fund wrote.

But even then, the hedge fund has struggled to find a winning strategy.

Tiger Global was down more than 34% the first quarter of 2022.

And instead of finding a solution, the hedge fund sank to a total of 52% halfway through Q2.

Things aren’t looking so good for the hedge fund.

What do you think?

Will hedge fund Tiger Global be the next institution to fall?

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The Tiger Cubs Are on The Brink of Collapsing

May 20, 2022 /
Tiger Cubs Hedge Fund
Market News: Tiger Cubs face disturbing losses as tech stocks fall

(Bloomberg) Hedge fund managers known as Tiger Cubs are facing serious carnage in the market.

The alliance consists of Tiger Global Management, Lone Pine Capital, Coatue Management, Maverick Capital, Viking Global Investors and D1 Capital 

Billions were made in tech stocks, but gains have now evaporated.

Tech stocks have fallen the first quarter of 2022 and have bled into the second quarter this year.

Is it possible the Tiger Cubs are the next hedge fund managers to join Melvin Capital’s grand exit?

Let’s discuss it.

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NASDAQ plummets in 2022

The tech-heavy NASDAQ 100 has fallen more than 29% this year.

It’s down more than 11% from the S&P 500 (down 18.47% YTD).

According to Bloomberg, majority of the Tiger Cubs stock picks are in tech stocks.

Tiger Global exited 83 positions depicted in the chart below and entered only 2 new positions.

The hedge fund sank 34% the first quarter of 2022.

Tiger Cubs positions

Coatue Management is another hedge fund who has been struggling to keep its doors open this year.

Last year investors demanded to pull out $250 million from the hedge fund but Coatue was unable to meet demands.

Coatue said the money they could not deliver to their clients was being held in private companies, making it difficult to liquidate.

Today we see Coatue Management exited 35 stocks and only entered 12 so far.

The rest of the cubs aren’t doing so well with everyone exiting more positions than entering them.

Tiger Cubs cut their losses

Below you’ll find a chart showing the worst-performing stocks widely held by the Tiger Cubs.

Big name companies include Carvana, DoorDash, Netflix, and Shopify to name a few.

Tiger Cubs Losses
Source – Bloomberg

The Tiger Cubs have been known for piling into the same or similar stocks since they all had the same mentor.

These hedge funds are facing significant losses despite being in it together.

Melvin Capital saw a 50% loss in 2021 and another 20.6% during the first quarter of 2022 before throwing in the towel.

The hedge fund was destroyed by retail investors when it decided to bet against game retailer GameStop and other ‘meme stocks’.

Ken Griffin defended Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital in a Bloomberg exclusive attacking retail investors.

The Citadel founders said retail investors wiped out teacher’s pension plans by bankrupting Melvin Capital.

And the retail community is biting back, speaking the truth.

CALPERS, the largest pension fund in America loaded up on AMC and GameStop and sold Netflix, though.

Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater sold Tesla this Q1 and bought AMC stock for the first time and increased their stake in GameStop.

These are two examples where conventional wisdom doesn’t always make sense (i.e., investing in fundamental tech stocks).

And we can see hedge funds who do follow this ‘conventional wisdom’ are suffering because of it.

Which hedge fund will be next to fall?

Some of you said on Twitter Tiger Global could be the next hedge fund to fall.

Coatue Management has been in deep waters too.

I’m curious to know what you think about where hedge funds are currently headed.

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Ken Griffin Attacks: “Pension Plans Destroyed by Retail Investors”

May 19, 2022 /
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Market News: Ken Griffin on retail investors

Ken Griffin accused the retail community of destroying teacher’s pension plans by taking down Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital.

Melvin Capital is a hedge fund that was short on ‘meme stocks’ holding a large position in GameStop.

The company is scheduled to shut down in June after it had suffered a 50% loss in 2021, and an additional 20.6% in the first quarter of 2022.

Sources say Melvin Capital has already begun to liquidate its positions to pay back investors in cash.

In this Bloomberg exclusive, Ken Griffin plays a role of the victim, defending Mr. Plotkin and the hedge fund whose mission it was to bankrupt GameStop.

Ken Griffin’s Citadel is also short on AMC Entertainment – the hedge fund lost billions last year betting against retail.

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CNBC mourns the loss of Melvin Capital

CNBC says Melvin was one of the biggest victims from the meme stock frenzy last year due to its large short position in GameStop.

They say Citadel and Point72 had to provide Melvin Capital with a lifeline to stay above the water.

The hedge funds combined provided Gabe Plotkin with $2.75 billion in capital last year.

However, as things went south quick for Melvin, both hedge funds demanded the capital back.

Something Ken Griffin and his affiliates fail to mention.

Mainstream media has also danced around the fact that hedge funds planned to wipe American companies by overleveraging their short positions during the pandemic.

Success in doing so would delist AMC, GameStop, and other meme stocks from the stock market.

Betting against companies with intention to bankrupt them to the ground is no charity work.

It’s un-American and a nefarious practice that has dragged out for too long.

Ken Griffin blames retail investors

In the video below, Ken Griffin gives his thoughts on retail investors and the entire ‘meme stock’ phenomena.

Ken Griffin takes a jab at the retail community saying retail investors who aimed to bankrupt Melvin Capital also wiped-out pension funds from teachers.

But Ken, retail investors don’t get up in the morning and think to themselves, “let’s wipe out a multi-billion-dollar hedge fund.”

Melvin Capital lost because he went against retail – the first time in history the people fight back corruption in the stock market, and win.

Ken Griffin lost billions shorting AMC stock, the retail community is currently his biggest adversary.

AMC shareholders continue to buy and hold the stock until short sellers exit their positions, which will result in a short squeeze.

Today’s retail investors are armed with education, they understand what they hold and what it’s doing to hedge funds.

While Ken Griffin and affiliates might be pumping a narrative as victims, high profiles such as Elon Musk, Jon Stewart, and Ryan Cohen have stood up against short sellers.

For the first time in history, Wall Street is getting their a** kicked, and these hedge fund managers certainly do not like that.

Hedge funds should prepare for bigger losses

Institutions are about to lose a massive amount of collateral due to executive order 14032 in early June.

This presidential order is prohibiting Chinese securities to be used as collateral starting June 2nd, 2022.

It was responsible for initiating margin calls when AMC Entertainment stock rose to $20 per share in January, and $72 per share in June of last year.

With liquidity drying up in global markets, it’s going to be quite difficult for hedge funds to keep up with margin requirements on heavily shorted ‘meme stocks’.

Massive selloffs in the market have proved just how distressed financial institutions are.

We’re seeing for the first-time hedge funds begin to shut down as they take the lead in liquidity burn.

Retail investors have been the majority of buyers in today’s markets according to Bank of America.

Hedge funds are headed towards a larger train-wreck of disaster they cannot get off of.

As they continue to tank the markets, margin requirements go up thanks to DTCC B16845-22.

Hedge funds have lost control.

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Hedge Fund Melvin Capital Is Shutting Down End of June

May 19, 2022 /
Hedge Fund Melvin Capital is Shutting Down End of June
GameStop short seller Melvin Capital is closing its doors this summer

Hedge fund Melvin Capital, notoriously known by the retail community for betting against GameStop is now closing its doors.

2022 marks the second year in a row the short seller underperforms.

Melvin Capital lost a staggering 20.6% the first quarter this year alone.

In 2021, they took a heavier hit with 50% in losses.

Now the hedge fund tells CNBC they will be shutting down by the end of June and starting a new company.

Let’s dive deeper.

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The apes were right

In March, I published a tweet asking the community whether Melvin Capital would be the next hedge fund to default.

We all saw this coming, but 90% of you voted YES.

Forward a month later and now the hedge fund is announcing it is closing this summer.

Earlier in March we saw another notorious hedge fund known for shorting GameStop pull $2 billion from Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital.

That hedge fund was Citadel.

Citadel also lost billions last year shorting so called ‘meme stocks’, so it comes as no surprise as to why they pulled out from Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital.

Ken Griffin’s Citadel also imposed tight restrictions on its clients leading into the new year.

Customers were given an ultimatum to either stay with the firm otherwise coming back would prove to be difficult.

Steve Cohen’s Point72 redeemed $750 million from Melvin Capital around the same time.

Ken Griffin received a $1.2 billion lifeline from partners Sequoia and Paradigm in January of this year.

This was the first time Citadel had ever received private funding.

Don’t bet against the apes

Mainstream media doesn’t give retail investors enough credit for shedding light on market injustices.

The ‘ape’ community has grown since last year as retail investors discover the short interest data that points towards a bigger AMC runup than that of January and May of last year.

In this video I go over patterns that are similar to those from last year’s runup and what we should keep a close eye out on.

The apes were right about naked shorting, dark pools, and the dangers of betting against retail.

Now hedge funds are dealing with the consequences of betting against the people.

Majority of the community continues to buy and hold ‘meme stocks’ such as AMC and GameStop in efforts to create a massive short squeeze.

Retail has said it many times, a short squeeze is inevitable.

While the SEC might be proposing rules that could wash naked short selling, yet avoid them in the future, it would take years to enforce if passed.

Will hedge funds survive?

Hedge funds are currently facing deep scrutiny from both retail investors and regulators.

The DOJ is taking Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and numerous other hedge funds to court.

Citadel is one of the short sellers currently being investigated by the Department of Justice according to a Bloomberg report.

The SEC and DOJ are looking into the following:

  • Communication between banks and hedge funds
  • Proof of ‘Bear Raids’
  • Spoofing
  • And several other market manipulation tactics

Hedge fund Muddy Waters was already raided by the FBI earlier this year for flooding the market with fake orders to drive stock prices down.

Melvin Capital is only one of many hedge funds that has closed down in the past year due to overleveraged short selling, and bad bets.

What are your thoughts on the Melvin Capital news?

Did you see it coming?

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Stocks and Crypto Are Under Attack by Banks and Hedge Funds

May 11, 2022 /
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Stocks and crypto are falling.

SPY stock (S&P 500) has fallen below $400 per share and is now down more than 17% this year to date.

Bitcoin is down more than 37% this year and has fallen below $30,000 again.

Banks and hedge funds have been selling off both the stock and crypto markets as the need for liquidity rises.

Will stocks and crypto go back up again?

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Banks and hedge funds tank the markets

Banks and hedge funds have been responsible for essentially every market crash in history.

But nothing has truly been done about the systemic risks caused by these financial institutions.

Today we’re seeing the collapse of both stocks and crypto.

Massive selloffs in the market are providing liquidity to institutions in order to keep their losing short positions open.

On top of these fire sales, the amount of shorting has increased to hedge against losses from last year’s bull run.

Short sellers lost billions of dollars last year when the ‘meme stock’ frenzy took over Wall Street.

Today, hedge funds are liquidating the markets to keep up with increased margin requirements this new year.

But at what cost?

Investors invested in great companies are losing money not because of business fundamentals, but because of the lack of regulation in the financial system.

Crypto developers say crypto crash was coordinated

LUNA and UST developers said this week’s crash was caused by a coordinated attack from hedge funds and big banks.

It comes as no surprise since hedge funds and big banks have been colluding to short specific stocks in the market.

The fed has opened investigations looking into these serious issues.

Goldman Sachs’ dark pools are currently under investigation, Archegos founder Bill Hwang was recently arrested with 11 criminal counts, and the list goes on.

Subpoenas went out to several hedge funds and banks earlier this year – one of the hedge funds under investigation is Citadel, according to Bloomberg sources.

Word is spreading on Twitter and Reddit and BlackRock and Citadel are responsible for the massive selloffs in the crypto market too.

Deeper due diligence is being done on this matter.

Citadel or not, coordinated attacks on securities is something the government should be taking seriously.

Will stocks and crypto bounce back?

It’s difficult to look ahead when the markets are bleeding, after all you are seeing your net worth drop quicker than it took for it to reach new heights.

If you’re worried about today’s markets, you might have been introduced to a short-term way of investing.

While certain plays could be short-term trades, majority of the market tends to be a long-term speculative game.

We bet that the companies we’re investing in will do great over the span of 10 years or so and let the markets go through the ups and downs, at least in the case of the stock market.

Crypto has and will always have greater potential than it has previously seen.

And crypto heads know this.

Is this the end of the stock and crypto markets?

Absolutely not.

What we’re seeing today has happened several times over the course of both markets.

After a climb, there’s always some setback that scares investors momentarily.

But if there’s something we can always learn from historic patterns, it’s that stocks and crypto have always gone right back up and set even bigger all-time highs.

Is now the perfect time to buy?

is now the perfect time to buy stocks and crypto?
Is now the perfect time to buy stocks and crypto?

It seems both stocks and crypto are having a difficult time finding a bottom.

And trying to time it has always proven that no one can time the markets perfectly.

Searching for a good entry point could just as likely end up hurting you if the markets were to suddenly go through a reversal.

Skilled long-term investors know that when the markets are red, you buy and hold.

Because the price of securities always goes up after a dreadful period of nonstop downtrend.

The upcoming reversal will have you wishing you’d have stocked up on stocks and crypto today.

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Goldman Sachs’ Dark Pools Are Under Federal Investigation

May 6, 2022 /
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BREAKING: Goldman Sachs dark pool is under investigation

Goldman Sach’s dark pools are under investigation according to an SEC report.

The SEC published a report highlighting what essentially seems to be a deep audit.

This is not the first time Goldman Sachs has been fined or investigated for abusing its power.

Dark pools played a massive part in the recession of 2008, but dark pools were never banned.

Will something finally be done about it this time around?

In this article I’m going to break down everything they’re looking into, starting with Goldman Sachs’ dark pools.

Let’s break it down together.

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Feds crack down on Goldman Sachs dark pools

The fed is looking into various matters relating to Goldman Sachs’ businesses and operations.

One of which stands out to retail investors as being its dark pools.

The fed is investigating the supervision and controls relating to Goldman’s high frequency trading (HFTs) and its alternative trading systems (ATSs), also known as dark pools.

Dark Pools (also benignly called Alternative Trading Systems or ATS) are effectively unregulated stock exchanges being run by the same megabanks on Wall Street that blew up the U.S. financial system in 2008 and received the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. history. – Wall Street On Parade.

The name of Goldman Sachs’ Dark Pool that trades in the U.S. is called Sigma X2.

It used to be called simply Sigma X.

According to a publicly-available document, Sigma X is now used by Goldman Sachs to designate the Dark Pools it operates in foreign jurisdictions, which include Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.

Dark pools are the gateway that allow financial institutions to manipulate the stock market without any regulation.

Now the fed is cracking down on Goldman Sachs and it comes as no surprise since the bank has been criminally charged on many occasions before.

In October of 2020, Goldman Sachs admitted to the charges of a bribery scandal where they were fined $2.9 billion.

Other operations being looked into

The fed is looking into the institution’s advisory services and conflicts of interest.

They are also tackling the following:

  • Research practices, including research independence and interactions between research analysts and other firm personnel, including investment banking personnel, as well as third parties.
  • Transactions involving government-related financings and other matters.
  • The offering, auction, sales, trading and clearance of corporate and government securities, currencies, commodities and other financial products and related sales and other communications and activities.
  • As well as the firm’s supervision and controls relating to such activities, including compliance with applicable short sale rules, algorithmic, high-frequency and quantitative trading, the firm’s U.S. alternative trading system (dark pool), futures trading, options trading.
  • And finally, insider trading.

The SEC said in past years they were tackling dark pools but failed to competently execute the plan.

The issue was brought to the light by the ‘meme stock’ crowd who also exposed naked short selling and received attention by mainstream media.

Dark pools have been able to suppress stock prices across the market from reaching full demand potential.

Gary Gensler said 90%-95% of retails orders do not get processed through the lit exchange (NYSE) but rather through these dark pools.

Goldman Sachs and others have essentially stolen from retail investors as only 5%-10% of retails money actually creates demand for a stock.

For every dollar retail puts in the market, only this small percentage is reflected on a security.

That’s what happens when financial institutions like Goldman Sachs redirects orders through its dark pools.

This is a developing story.

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Archegos Founder Bill Hwang Has Been Arrested with 11 Criminal Counts

April 28, 2022 /
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Market News: Bill Hwang has been arrested for market manipulation

Archegos founder Bill Hwang and CFO Patrick Halligan were arrested and charged with 11 criminal counts.

Federal prosecutors said Bill Hwang used Archegos as an “instrument of market manipulation and fraud.”

The hedge fund managed to inflate its portfolio from $1.5 billion to $35 billion before its collapse, causing massive losses for banks and investors.

Let’s break down everything that’s happening, together.

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Bill Hwang and Patrick Halligan arrested for market manipulation

Bill Hwang gets arrested

Before he lost it all, Bill Hwang was worth $20 billion and was known as one of the greatest traders you could have heard of.

Hwang’s $20 billion net worth was almost as liquid as a government stimulus check.

And then, in two short days, it was gone.

The sudden implosion of Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management in late March is one of the most spectacular failures in modern financial history.

No individual has lost so much money so quickly, via Bloomberg.

Bill Hwang’s wealth briefly peaked at $30 billion.

He used swaps, a type of derivative that gives an investor exposure to the gains or losses in an underlying asset without owning it directly. 

Another leverage tool hedge funds have access to, which concealed both his identity and size of his positions.

You’d think a regulatory agency would exist right?

Don’t count on the SEC.

On March 26th, investors learned that Archegos had defaulted on loans used to build a $100 billion portfolio.

Credit Suisse, one of Bill Hwang’s lenders, lost $4.7 billion.

How did Archegos manipulate the stock market?

Bill Hwang’s Archegos essentially used a ton of leverage to pump stock prices up.

As the price of stocks rose, they would buy more shares with those profits, and continue to borrow money from the bank to further pump the prices.

Archegos only held a small portfolio consisting of a few selected companies, of which whom they had many shares of.

When a few companies’ share prices began to plummet, Hwang’s entire empire crumbled almost instantaneously.

As the value of their portfolio sank, the hedge fund was forced to liquidate even more assets due to margin calls, further escalating the situation, and losses.

Archegos was forced to default, causing investors and banks billions of dollars.

Bill Hwang already had a troubled history with hedge fund Tiger Asia, who was shut down by the U.S. for insider trading and for manipulating Chinese stocks.

Still, Bloomberg vouches for Bill Hwang publishing an article he has done nothing wrong.

What was Bill Hwang charged with?

Hwang and Chief Financial Officer Patrick Halligan were charged with 11 criminal counts overall, including racketeering conspiracy, market manipulation, wire fraud and securities fraud. 

Hwang was arrested early Wednesday and was expected to appear in Manhattan federal court later in the day. 

This is a developing story.

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Hedge Fund Co-Founder Sentenced to Prison Avoids Jail Time

April 26, 2022 /
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Corruption: Hedge fund avoids jail time – pleads guilty of fraud

(Bloomberg) The co-founder of Premium Point Investments and a former trader pleaded guilty to charges they overstated asset values at the now-defunct hedge fund, but they won’t serve any time behind bars.

Anilesh Ahuja, the fund’s co-founder, and trader Jeremy Shor were found guilty of conspiring to overvalue the hedge fund’s assets by more than $100 million and sentenced to prison in 2019.

However, U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla in Manhattan overturned their convictions in December due to errors and misleading statements by prosecutors.

The pair had faced a new trial but reached a deal with the government allowing them to plead guilty to a single securities fraud count.

Under the deal, which was approved by Failla in a hearing on Friday, the two men won’t serve any prison time, pay a fine or serve probation.

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Hedge Fund gets away with prison time and fees

hedge fund pledges guilty and gets away with prison time

Before their convictions were overturned, Ahuja was sentenced to more than four years in prison and Shor, almost 3.5.

But their surrender dates were delayed, initially due to the Covid pandemic and later because the judge was considering throwing out the verdict.

As a result, neither man served any part of his sentence.

“We are pleased that Mr. Ahuja can finally put this ordeal behind him without having to spend a day in jail,” his lawyers, Richard Tarlowe and Roberto Finzi, said in a statement.

“After years of litigation, we are pleased to put this matter behind us with no additional punishment beyond the punishment already inflicted by the process,” Shor’s lawyer, Justin Weddle, said in an email.

Federal prosecutor Daniel Gitner defended the deal before the judge on Friday, saying Ahuja and Shor had already made “substantial restitution” to investors. 

“Today’s guilty pleas to securities fraud bring to a close the defendants’ scheme to mismark their funds’ books,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.

“This office stands by this prosecution, and is pleased that this matter has resolved with the defendants’ acceptance of responsibility.”

“Unacceptable errors”

Hedge fund avoids jail time after being sentences to prison – hedge fund pledges guilty

“I tried my hardest to conduct a fair trial,” Failla said in overturning the verdict.

“I no longer have confidence in the fairness of the trial.”

She declined to dismiss the charges against Ahuja and Shor though, saying that the errors made by the government — while “unacceptable” — were not severe enough to warrant throwing out the case.

Ahuja was a senior mortgage bond trader at Lehman Brothers, RBS Greenwich Capital and Deutsche Bank AG for four years before co-founding Premium Point in 2008.

The firm initially focused on the U.S. residential loan market and began amassing bonds backed by distressed assets in the wake of the global financial crisis.

It later expanded into the jumbo loan and home rental businesses and managed about $2 billion of assets at its peak.

Premium Point began winding down in late 2016 after posting large losses.

The fund revealed the following year that federal securities regulators were examining the way it valued its assets.

Its mortgage credit funds filed for bankruptcy protection in March 2018, and Ahuja, Majidi and Shor were charged two months later.

Former Chief Risk Officer Ashish Dole also pleaded guilty and testified for the prosecution at the trial.

The case is U.S. v. Ahuja, 18-cr-00328, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan), via Bloomberg.

Should hedge funds be allowed to get away with fraud?

It’s curious how these hedge fund co-founders were sentenced to prison but managed to get away with jail time.

What does this tell us about our system?

Why do you think this happened?

Was the government paid out?

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Melvin Capital Losses: Staggering 20.6% First Quarter of 2022

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(Bloomberg) Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital suffered a whopping 20.6% loss its first quarter of 2022.

The company short on AMC and GameStop continues to rollover its losses from last year’s bets on ‘meme stocks’.

The hedge fund also suffered a 50% loss its first quarter of 2021 last year.

We’ve seen hedge funds face massive adversity as retail investors buy stock in an illiquid market.

Let’s break it down together.

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Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital starts shaky 2022

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Melvin Capital Losses first quarter 2022

The New-York based hedge fund ended 2021 with 39% in losses, via. Bloomberg and fell 3.8% in March of 2022.

It’s been another rough start for the ‘meme stock’ short seller as sources report Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital ends its first quarter with a 20.6% loss.

The losses in March marked a consecutive streak of losses for three months in a row.

People asked Bloomberg not to be identified as the information has been private.

We saw Ken Griffin’s Citadel pull out $2 billion from Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital earlier this year as the hedge fund struggled to surface from deep waters.

But Citadel wasn’t the only one who pulled its money from the struggling hedge fund.

Point72 Asset Management retrieved their initial investment of $750 million from Melvin.

Gabe Plotkin saw losses of 20.6% in his hedge fund and more than $2.7 billion in redemptions its first quarter of 2022.

Other hedge funds facing turmoil in 2022

In recent news we’ve seen several hedge funds and financial institutions face rocky valleys going into 2022.

Investors in Coatue Management have requested to pull out more than $250 million from the hedge fund.

However, they have not been able to meet their clients demands as clearing houses currently face a liquidity crisis.

The hedge fund said the money investors were asking for in redemptions was invested in ‘private companies’.

Due to the Russian-Ukraine conflict, more than 100 hedge funds have billions stranded in the Cayman Islands.

Hedge funds affected by these frozen accounts include Millennium Management, Sculptor, Apollo, and Citadel.

You can read more about that mess here.

Another hedge fund who saw more losses than Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital entering 2022 was Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management.

The hedge fund sunk a massive 34% this year.

And the list goes on.

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Will hedge funds default this year?

90% of you said Melvin Capital will be the next hedge fund to default this year.

We saw Archegos, Anchorage Capital, and Mudrick default last year.

Is this a pattern we’re going to begin seeing again this year?

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this, leave a comment below.

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