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[The Bidens, Paradigm and Ponta] There are no safe harbours in Austin, Texas

From Reuters (via hedge fund implode-o-meter) comes a snippet about a Madoff-linked collapse: Austin Capital Management is closing its $900m Safe Harbor Fund, which is understood to have sustained around $186m in losses from investments in the Madoff ponzi. More…

[The Bidens, Paradigm and Ponta] Untangling floor 17, 650 5th Avenue

650 5th  Avenue has had an unusual and rather chequered history.  The mid-town Manhattan skyscraper was built in the 1970s by the Pahlavi foundation – a non-profit charitable organisation associated with the Shah of Iran. More…