Posts tagged 'SimmonsCooper'

Of hedge funds and asbestos

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| May 01 2009 08:20 | Comment |

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SimmonsCooper, a legal firm specialising in law suits on behalf of asbestos victims, may seem an unlikely financier for the hedge fund owned by US vice president Joe Biden’s brother and younger son. That hedge fund, Paradigm, is now in the spotlight for its links to another fund being investigated by the SEC for fraud. Read more

The politics of Paradigm

| May 01 2009 08:15 | Comment |

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In 2006 Hunter Biden, the youngest son of Delaware Senator Joe Biden, needed to find a new line of work. Read more