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Mutual funds: Getting what you pay for I must admit that I was truly shocked when I read last fall about Securities and Exchange Commission probes into mutual fund firms for accepting kickbacks from the companies hired to provide services to them. Seymour Hersh: Negroponte–Iran Contra—Funds…Oh my! Sy Hersh tells us that the echos of Iran Contra weighed heavily in Negroponte's decision to resign his post and is claiming that Bush is funneling money without authorization or oversight that has ended up in the hands of Sunni jihadist HEDGE FUND NEWS @ 26 February 2007 He said that despite concerns about the stability of the hedge fund s biggest hedge fund, whose management fees are about 10 times steeper. The fund, which invests in a basket of hedge funds, returned 7.6 percent last year. US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran For more details, please click on the link to read the article Telegraph UK: US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran [b]US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran[/b] By William Lowther in Washington DC and Colin Freeman, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:30am GMT 25/02/2007 ------------------------------------- America is secretly funding militant US FUNDS TERROR GROUPS TO SOW CHAOS IN IRAN America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme. In a move that reflects Washington’s growing concern with the failure of Taipan Financial News Smart Investing: Extrange-Traded Funds Taipan Financial News' Smart Investing host Sandy Franks gets expert ETF trader Rick Pendergraft's advice on how to use exchange-traded funds to build a profitable portfolio strategy based on the successful trading concepts of Hedge hersh: US funds al-qaeda Hersh says these funds have ended up in the hands of “three Sunni jihadist groups” who are “connected to al Qaeda” but “want to take on Hezbollah.” Hersh summed up his scoop in stark terms: “We are simply in a situation where this US Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Middle East Terrorists? Seymour Hersh, New Yorker, writes about what could be today's Iran-Contra fiasco. The Bush Administration is running clandestine operations in the Middle East, according to Hersh, using off-the-books funds adding fuel to the fire.Norway's $287 Billion Pension Fund May In total 22 per cent of the fund is managed by external managers ( thank god Knut Kjaer, head of the fund, plans to put 10 percent into real estate and Pension funds in the world's seven biggest markets now have 14.4 percent of funds: pictet funds , noload funds , pictet funds , noload funds , funds
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