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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Was Madoff’s hedge fund paying for the Investor Insurance?
If not..why would his investors qualify?


2 posted on 02/20/2009 10:29:26 AM PST by Oldexpat (Drill Here, Drill There..we must drill everywhere.)
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To: Oldexpat

“Was Madoff’s hedge fund paying for the Investor Insurance?
If not..why would his investors qualify?”

GOOD question. Is this like FDIC insurance for banks..in other words....tax $$$$??? Something that was set up to protect big investors?

“said the firm’s customers can recover up to the $500,000 they’re entitled to under the Securities Investor Protection Act. “


4 posted on 02/20/2009 10:33:33 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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