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There was a front page article in today’s New York times as part of the coverage of the guilty verdicts against Raj Rajaratnam, that was titled, “Next Up: A Crackdown on Expert Networks”. The gist of the article is that federal prosecutors were…
The insider trading trial of the century has started in Manhattan featuring Raj Rajaratnam, his Galleon hedge fund and a diverse set of characters ranging from a former Goldman Sachs director to consultants and naturally, other hedge fund managers. T…
A FORMER investor relations firm employee who did work for Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is among 4 people charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with the Galleon insider trading case. Shammara Hussain, 25, who worked at IR firm Market Street Partners was charged along with Robert Feinblatt, 41, co-founder and [...]
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Lots of interesting posts regarding recent insider buying and selling activity.
5 stocks with blizzard like insider purchases (Insider Monkey)
Insider Weekend (SINLetter)
Biderman of TrimTabs still doesn’t know who’s buying stocks (Distressed Volatility)
Weekend Update (Buy/Sell Signal Generator)
3 investment traps for 2011 (Yahoo Finance)
A weekly compilation of news from around the world of investor relations. Compiled and edited by Pam Agnew, ABC. Focus: The insider trading dragnet Insider-Trading Arrests Point Prosecutors to Hedge Funds Expert-networking companies such as Mountain View, California-based Primary Global match investors with specialists who provide insight into specific markets. The criminal complaint unsealed yesterday [...]
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the huge insider [...]
There’s an old French proverb, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”, which translates into “the more things change, the more they stay the same” and that’s the way I feel about insider trading. Every few years, the topic seems t…
Allan Murray runs a good interview with Joel Cohen, a former federal prosecutor and insider trading expert.
Good points about duty, hedge funds, insider investing and the gray areas surrounding implicit duties for confidentiality.
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Over on Tradestreaming, I just posted one of the strategies from my book. Specifically, research points to an interesting, profitable anomaly in the trades made by corporate insiders. Building a strategy by mimicking a subset of some of these moves has proven significantly outperform the markets.
Not all insider trades are created equal and investors need [...]
