Another complex financial fraud case has yielded a prison sentence. On Wednesday, Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced an 18-month prison sentence and $1 million for Stefan Lumiere, an executive at Visium Asset Management Lumiere was found guilty of securities and wire fraud for mismarking prices of illiquid securities. The complex process involves often opaque and illiquid over the counter securities where pricing data isn’t public and fund managers can raise the value of their assets – and increase their incentive fees – with the swipe of a keystroke. This…
Visium Exec Gets 18-Month Prison For Mismarking Illiquid Securities
Mark Melin
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.