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Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Fund (the “Enhanced Fund”)
Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Fund (the “High-Grade Fund”)

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Bear Stearns' Hedge Funds Fraught With Misconduct?

The news only appears to be getting worse for Bear Stearns and investors in its two failed hedge funds, the High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Fund (the “Enhanced Fund”) and the High-Grade Structured Credit Fund (the “High-Grade Fund”).

Wall Street's Second Act

After a miserable period that has brought billions of dollars in write downs, surging mortgage defaults, investigations into market manipulations and wrongdoings, an investment bank pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and a complete loss of investor confidence, it's time for Wall Street to reinvent itself.

Wanted: Wall Street Values

Federal investigations into major investment banks and securities firms over subprime-linked activities, the indictment and arrest of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers on charges of intentionally misleading investors about two hedge funds that imploded and the collapse of the auction-rate securities market give new meaning to the need for greater accountability and transparency on Wall Street.

The Downfall of Bear Stearns: What It Means

The sudden downfall of the mighty Bear Stearns adds more fuel to an already flaming fire that America's financial system might be headed for big trouble. Or, at the very least, it's experiencing an unprecedented crisis in confidence.

Fed's Bail-Out Plan for Bear Stearns Creates Questionable Precedent

Bear Stearns Cos. apparently has been given a reprieve, following news that the Federal Reserve will provide a 28-day line of credit to the troubled company via J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Bear Stearns Funds Collapse with More Investor Claims

According to a December 6, 2007, article in the Mercado Investment News, in July of 2007, Bear Stearns “burned up $1.6 billion of money that was invested in two of its hedge funds: High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Fund and the High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage (Overseas) Fund.”

A Report on Two of Bear Stearns' Failed Hedge Funds

It's only getting worse for investors in two failed Bear Stearns hedge funds, the High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Fund (the “Enhanced Fund”) and the High-Grade Structured Credit Fund (the “High-Grade Fund”).

Massachusetts Files Claims Against Bear Stearns

An article dated November 15, 2007, in The Wall Street Journal reported that Bears Stearns was the target of an administrative complaint filed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on charges of improper trading of mortgage-backed securities with two internal hedge funds that collapsed this past summer.

New York Attorney General Investigating Several Wall Street Firms Over Subprime Mortgage Securities

Three well-known investment banking firms — Merrill Lynch & Co., Bear Stearns Cos., and Deutsche Bank AG — are the target of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo who issued subpoenas on December 5, 2007, for information regarding the packaging and selling of debt tied to high-risk mortgages and their relationships with the firms responsible for rating the securities as investment grade.