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In the third and the biggest Philippine Ponzi scam (involving $150 million and $250 million, respectively), criminal charges, based on a suit filed by 21,000 complainants, were filed in June 2008, with the Department of Justice, against Performance Investments Products Corp (PIPC) officers and incorporators for violation of the Securities ...
RapidRatings generates a Financial Health Rating (FHR), a single number on a 0 - 100 scale that indicates the overall financial health of a given company. [9] The FHR is calculated using fundamental data from a company’s financial statements and does not take into account market inputs, analysts' opinions, trade payments, or contact with issuers, bankers, or advisors.
legal review, covering (amongst other things) design and establishment of the legal structure, advice taken by the alternative investment fund and its manager, material contracts, investment terms, indemnifications and insurances (although this may be performed as a separate legal due diligence)
"Night wind hawkers" sold stock on the streets during the South Sea Bubble.(The Great Picture of Folly, 1720)Pump and dump (P&D) is a form of securities fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements (pump), in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price (dump).
A high-yield investment program (HYIP) is a type of Ponzi scheme, an investment scam that promises unsustainably high return on investment by paying previous investors with the money invested by new investors. [1]
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The Saradha Group financial scandal was a major political scandal caused by the collapse of a Ponzi scheme run by Saradha Group, a consortium of over 200 private companies that was believed to be running collective investment schemes popularly but incorrectly referred to as chit funds [1] [2] [3] in Eastern India. [4]
Muddy Waters gained notability in 2011 following the release of a negative research report on Sino-Forest Corp, [5] in which Muddy Waters alleged that the company was fraudulently inflating its assets and earnings hence, making the company's shares worthless.