Prosecutors investigating Bear fund manager: report
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Federal prosecutors are investigating  whether a Bear Stearns Co Inc  fund manager improperly  withdrew his own money from a fund while making rosy forecasts  about the prospect of the portfolio, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Tuesday.
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Business & money: Criminal investigation into possible fraud and insider trading involves some of world's largest banks
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Morningstar, the research firm that tracks more than 16,000 mutual funds, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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U.S. government prosecutors are  investigating whether Swiss banking giant UBS misled investors  by reporting inflated prices of mortgage-backed securities it  held despite knowing those valuations had eroded, the Wall  Street Journal said on Saturday.
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Investors in Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge funds that were virtually wiped out from large bets on risky mortgages are planning to sue the company as early as Monday, television channel CNBC reported on Friday.
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Some aggrieved investors are turning  to lawyers to pursue possible legal claims stemming from losses  at two Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge funds that were  virtually wiped out from large, illiquid bets on risky  mortgages.
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Federal regulators are investigating whether traders at Fidelity Investments improperly steered business to their brothers who work for brokerage firms that execute trades for the mutual fund giant, according to attorneys and others involved in the case.
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Bear Stearns has received subpoenas from federal investigators looking into its municipal bond business, the company reported in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- A former hedge fund manager has been charged with criminal insider trading for allegedly profiting from confidential information she had received from Arlington investment firm Friedman Billings Ramsey Group Inc.
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A New York stockbroker was indicted on  Thursday on securities fraud and other charges in connection  with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's probe into late  trading in mutual funds, Spitzer said.
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Barclays Bank Plc  on  Wednesday accused Bear Stearns Co Inc  of using two  hedge funds that collapsed last summer as places to unload  troubled assets.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating whether the wife of EnronÂs former chairman, Kenneth Lay, engaged in insider trading just before the company collapsed, people involved in the case said.
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Investment bank Merrill Lynch   has seized $400 million in assets of a troubled hedge fund at  Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  and plans to sell them off, The  Wall Street Journal reported in its weekend edition.
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Bear Stearns Cos  is being  investigated by Massachusetts securities regulators over  whether the bank improperly traded with two in-house hedge  funds that collapsed last summer, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Friday.
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Investors in Bear Stearns Cos.   hedge funds that were virtually wiped out from large bets on  risky mortgages are planning to sue the company as early as  Monday, television channel CNBC reported on Friday.
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The U.S. attorney's office in the District is conducting a criminal investigation related to Allied Capital Corp.'s investment in its single largest holding, a New York small-business lender, Allied said yesterday.
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The SEC is looking into whether the financial-information provider failed to correct inaccurate data it published regarding a single mutual fund in a timely manner.