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Massachusetts takes aim at expert networks
While we have yet to see federal regulators propose any additional regulations to thwart hedge funds bent using illegally obtained material inside information to make bets in the market, we are
Time to set rules for employee consulting work
The high-profile insider trading investigation has focused attention on expert network firms and the risks they represent. The probe uncovered several cases of employees that are paid quite well to
Policies governing research firms now imperative
The rise of "expert network" stock research firms has galvanized prosecutors who have charged several associates of these firms with facilitating illegal insider trading. They say these experts have
Taiwan, the wild east for insider traders
In a globalized economy, the sins of one region can easily be exported to another. Consider Taiwan, which has become an important country when it comes to the chips necessary to power a wide range of
Hedge funds crave an edge: Technology or info?
One could argue that the one thing hedge funds managers crave is an edge. They need something that others don't have. But finding that extra something--the secret sauce, so to speak--isn't easy. That
Four more arrested in expert network insider trading probe
The expert network insider trading probe expanded dramatically when four more people were arrested and charged, including three corporate executives: Walter Shimoon, vice president of Flextronics;
Corporate executives to be implicated in insider trading probe?
Since the insider trading probe loosely linked to expert network research firms got underway, there's been a vague sense it would expand, at least in the public's eye. More high-profile arrests were
What do prosecutors have up their sleeves in expert network probe?
We've noted that the high-profile "expert network" insider trading probe is in tricky terrain legally. It's not one of the traditional tipper-tippee cases, which are still being prosecuted, by the
Expert network insider trading scandal still reverberates
We noted recently that one focus of the massive insider trading probe now underway is the nascent expert network industry . These post-global stock research settlement start-ups have been perhaps the
