watching Jason Tanz talk to Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler at today's Wired . If you remember the? you can predict Magnetar's supposed motive: The hedge fund according to Loreley picked securities that doomed the CDOs to fail because it had shorted them via credit default swapsLoreley certainly wasn't the only one to suspect that Magnetar and the banks had rigged the CDOs they peddled in 2006 and 2007; in 2011?by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it marketed the Squared CDO without telling investors that Magnetar had a hand in selecting the CDO's reference portfolio while simultaneously shorting the deal Since then State Street Mizuho and Deutsche Bank have all reached regulatory settlements over undisclosed Magnetar involvement in CDO deals According to ProPublica?in which it bought equity tranches of mortgage-referenced CDOs while at the same time shorting the same or similar CDOs through swaps (I should note here that Magnetar like Paulson in the Goldman deal has not been accused of wrongdoing by the SEC Magnetar has always maintained that its short positions were a hedge against equity tranche investments)Loreley has not sued Magnetar which after all didn't sell it the CDOs and had no duty to the investment vehicle Instead its counsel atKasowitz Benson Torres & Friedmanbrought claims against the banks that arranged the CDOs and solicited Loreley's investment In the last few months three of Loreley's cases have faced bank motions to dismiss In December New York State Supreme Court JusticeJeffrey Oing? seemed entirely persuaded by the investment vehicle's purported evidence. probably at about the point when Germany realizes it is picking up France's dinner check. is deeply divisive. the three firms said."The assets of the merged entity will be huge. - bound the class, I'm ignoring the subtleties of a long and complex decision, they must first show they are up to the job.

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