Tag Archive for: SEC

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The Most Money I Ever Found in a Divorce Case? From Securities Filings

It’s not even a close call. Sometimes I can find hundreds of thousands of dollars in a company or two that may eventually lead to a better settlement, sometimes a vacation home that was being tucked away or grossly undervalued. But for…
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A Manual for How to Blow Your Due Diligence

Step one: don’t have a manual. That’s the message in an information-packed new book about the inner workings of the SEC just after the Madoff and now largely forgotten (but just as egregious) Allen Stanford frauds. In his memoir of five…
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World on a String

The world is getting smaller in many ways, including for fact finders looking to get information about companies. Sometimes, the company across the street will file more information about itself halfway around the world than it will in its own…