in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, a hedge fund using investor money to defend against allegations of illegal activity

Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-20/at-visium-red-flags-presaged-downfall-of-8-billion-hedge-fund

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On the move by a hedge fund to hold back investors’ dollars to pay hedge
fund legal fees related to allegations to illegal activity.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-20/at-visium-red-flags-presaged-downfall-of-8-billion-hedge-fund

“Investors pay hefty fees to the fund’s management firm, expecting it to
pick good, honest people,” said Erik Gordon, a professor at the University
of Michigan Ross School of Business. “When it doesn’t, investors don’t want
to pay the legal fees for a mess they didn’t create.”

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Erik Gordon
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

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