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1) Can You Turn Goldman's Pain Into Your Gain? + Vic Wisemann’s Thoughts on: GS, FNM, FRE, MS, JPM, C, BAC
Vic Wisemann
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Goldman Sachs (GS) has arguably been the most successful firm on Wall Street for decades, with some of the world's biggest private equity and hedge funds and investment bankers and traders who practically minted money.
The bank was humbled along with the rest of Wall Street in 2008 when the financial markets crashed, turning itself into a commercial bank holding company and surviving the meltdown with federal assistance. In 2009, it led the Street's resurgence and was the first to seek to pay back its bailout money. But its hardball tactics and supersized profits drew new scrutiny and criticism. And in April, the bank was accused of securities fraud in a civil suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission that claimed the bank created and sold a mortgage investment that was secretly devised to fail.
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Stepping up the pressure on the company just days after its executives were grilled and publicly rebuked by lawmakers, the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation of GS over mortgage securities deals it arranged. The criminal inquiry follows civil fraud charges filed by the government against GS and as Congress pushes toward enacting sweeping legislation aimed at preventing another near-meltdown of the financial system.
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The investigation by the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan stems from a criminal referral by the SEC. The SEC brought civil fraud charges against Goldman and a trader in connection with the transactions in 2006 and 2007. The agency alleged the firm misled investors by failing to tell them the subprime mortgage securities had been chosen with help from a Goldman hedge fund client, Paulson & Co., which was betting the investments would fail. Goldman and the trader, Fabrice Tourre, have denied wrongdoing and said they will contest the allegations in court.
Goldman Sachs faces a vexing dilemma, legal experts say, as the Justice Department conducts a criminal investigation into whether the financial services giant duped buyers of its securities. The company could lose its vaunted reputation for integrity if it admits to wrongdoing as part of a deal to avoid criminal prosecution.
But if Goldman insists that it did nothing wrong, whish is the position it has taken since April 16, when the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil lawsuit alleging securities fraud, then investors may fear that it will grow increasingly distracted by legal matters.
Read on to see how you can turn Goldman's pain into your portfolio’s gain.
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