January 28, 2008, OREGON INVESTMENT COUNCIL HEDGE FUND INVESTING

  Bill Parish – Parish & Company Investment Management<Click

Financial, Economic, Political & Media Observations. a Local Investment Management Presence with a Global Perspective (see company website at www.billparish.com)

"... It is somewhat astonishing that these hedge and private equity firms are therefore profiting on the decline of the very same securities owned by the Oregon Investment Council.  Clearly, the lending of securities owned by public pensions should be banned immediately by the Obama administration.  While short selling may be an important part of the overall market, the notion that right of ownership can be lent for the purpose of such investments is simply ridiculous, no matter how long it has gone on....

.. A link to this video was also sent to several leading journalists and today the Wall Street Journal printed a story today regarding AIG’s security lending portfolio.   Although AIG’s program is different in detail, the same overall concept is used.  That is, AIG was lending its right of ownership to others so they could engage in transactions which regulators would otherwise prohibit....

..  What continually makes the United States the place to be with respect to investment is the expectation that, when all is said and done, the rule of law generally prevails.   One need only visit  China, Japan and Russia to see that markets are generally manipulated by insiders....


 

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... to be continued ....