Arthur Levitt, during his tenure at the SEC, experienced many cases where the non-indexed mutual fund manager bought shares for their own account before the fund bought the shares. Purchases of the fund drove the price of stocks and the fund manager's made a killing on the deal. This is called "front running," and is illegal under securities law.
Mr. Levitt also witnessed cases where the funds would buy large blocks run in the share price at the end of the financial period. This made the fund as if it had a high profit when it did not. This makes the performance of the fund look better than it really is.
The SEC brought enforcement cases against some of the largest and most respected companies in Mr. Levitt's tenure as SEC chairman. A mutual fund is managed by Van Kampen Investment instance, Corp. claimed in public that advertising 62 percent in 1996 had returned. This causes information to be reported as the best performance in its class, a full 20% ahead of the second-best performing fund in the category. Fund rating service Lipper Inc. to fund
But investors were not told that the excellent performance of the Van Kampen fund were small assets of $ 200,000.00 to $ 380,000.00. This is because it really was a so-called incubator fund active in seed capital to its portfolio manager has a track record for marketing determine. Nor were told that more than half of the income came from investments in thirty hot IPO investors. An IPO is an "Initial Public Offering" which occurs when a company offers first stock on a public exchange. As the stock is new nobody knows how it will perform except insiders.
The fund had only to buy between 100 and 400 shares of IPO to achieve. An enormous strengthening of returns The 62% increased yield unrealistic expectations of investors and was unsustainable. If senior managers of Van Kampen decided to sell to the public fund some 15,000 people invested $ 100,000,000.00 within six weeks. Van Kampen SEC settled charges that it had misled investors. What a bunch of crooks. The fund is like a modern day remake of the movie "The Sting" where Paul Newman's character is replaced by the fund manager!
A fund managed by Dreyfus Corp., owned by Mellon Financial Corp., paid nearly $ 3 million to settle, without admitting or denying guilt, similar charges of fraudulently lure investors with unsustainable returns. Her manager claimed efficiency of over 80%, but not to tell that the fund had received. Disproportionate number of IPO shares that should be allocated to other investors Dreyfus funds
The fund industry less on image creation and more should work to ensure that every effort to protect money and boost efficiency investor has done. On The mutual fund industry has become a financial powerhouse of the last twenty years and only care about how much money it can suck out of the public just as it was in the beginning of the last century, when they were called investments. Funds are glitzy marketing activities rather than stewards of other people's money. Put your trust in them, unless they are fully indexed as the Vanguard 500 (VFINX).
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