Will SEC fraud charge of Goldman and its banker cause greater awareness of hard asset benefits?
*Financial Times, by Henny Sender & Francesco Guerrera, April 28, 2010:
''Goldman Sachs is in talks over a potential settlement with an
investor that claims that it lost money and went out of business after
buying into a $1bn (€760,000) mortgage-backed security that was later
privately criticised by a senior executive at the bank.
Timberwolf plummeted in value months after it was launched in March
2007, at a time when Goldman had already decided to cut its exposure to
the housing market.
The talks are at a preliminary stage and there is no certainty they
will lead to a settlement.
But the news will compound pressure on Goldman after a grilling of
former and current executives by a Senate panel and scrutiny of its
activities in the mortgage market in the run-up to the financial
crisis. Earlier this month, the US Securities and Exchange Commission
filed civil fraud charges against Goldman and one of its bankers,
accusing them of misleading investors in a mortgage-backed
collateralised debt obligation known as Abacus. Goldman and the banker,
Fabrice Tourre, deny the charges.''
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