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Millennium Vet To Launch Commodity Fund In Jan.


A former Millennium Capital Partners commodity fund manager will launch his own commodity hedge fund in the New Year.

The AN Commodity Fund is the brainchild of Tan Tien Leong, who worked at Millennium in London for two years. The new Singapore-based fund will invest in exchange-traded derivatives, with 30% of the fund in energy, 30% in agriculture and 25% in precious metals.

TBG Taps Alternative Investment Vet To Lead Marketing

Financial investment firm The Bornhoft Group Corporation (TBG) has tapped Tom O’Donnell to lead the firm’s institutional marketing campaign and client correspondence activities. 

Insparo Adds Africa Marketer-Manager

Hedge fund firm Insparo Asset Management has hired a marketer to sell its Africa & Middle East Fund.

Madoff Trustee And His Law Firm Seek Another $22 Million

Recovering assets for the victims of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme isn’t proving cheap.

EIP Opens Alelph Fund To Outsiders

Seven months after launching its Asia-Pacific event-driven hedge fund, Enhanced Investment Products is seeking outside investors.

Citadel Nabs First Bond Underwriting Gig

Citadel Investment Group’s nascent investment-banking business has won its first debt-underwriting customer.

Citi Pulls Seed Funding From Credit Hedge Fund

Citigroup has redeemed its seed investment with a credit hedge fund founded by three former traders at the firm as part of a larger move away from outside hedge fund investments.


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'Loose Lips Sink Ships': Insider Trading and The Lessons of Galleon

Lawrence CohenLawrence Cohen“How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around whiskey? Do they cry?” -- The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (1997)

By Lawrence Cohen, Esq., Director, Gibbons P.C. -- Last month, the SEC brought criminal charges against the founder of Galleon Management L.P., Raj Rajaratnam, and five other individuals for alleged insider trading violations.  The Galleon fund capsized within days. More...