The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged Woodbridge Group and its owner, real estate developer Robert Shapiro, with operating what amounted to a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. The SEC has frozen Shapiro’s assets amid one of the larger and last Ponzi schemes of late, saying the “business model was a sham” and putting a freeze on the high-flying fund manager's business activities.
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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