Hedge funds operate in a highly unregulated environment, operating through string of companies in various jurisdictions, many of them offshore. Below is a simple recipe how to make big money:
1. A hedge funds lends a lot of money (say, $100mil) to a company.
2. Then a hedge fund buys "insurance" on this $100mil, say, 10 times over. So in case of a company-borrower default on $100mil, a hedge fund gets $1bn.
3. In parallel a hedge fund takes over some control over a company on one side, and on the other, pulls the plug on this $100mil loan, demanding repayment, forcing a company into default and bankruptcy. When it happens a hedge fund ends up with $1bn payment (minus some millions of the costs of operations).
(For all those not that clever in finance, it is the same strategy as if you insured your house 10 times over, and then left on holidays without turning off the 30 years old chips deep fryer.)
As suggested in an article, ”Is another loot going on now?”, a lot of taxpayers’ money that was used to rescue the banks, or has been supplied as a part of quantitative easing, is likely to end up in offshore companies, hedge funds and all that. If you ever wondered how they make loads of money, you have this example above. There are many more other ways. It is a self-perpetuating machine that is designed to make money for financiers involved and rob shareholders, stakeholders, taxpayers, etc: to hold them by their throat, in the same way as loan sharks control their victims. It is not really that clever or intelligent: an par with sophistication of Albanian gangsters in 1996 -1997.
The fact that the system allows such arrangements means that it is criminal and the prosecution authorities must look into it. The fact that the politicians, our elected representatives, allow for such arrangements makes them materially and criminally responsible.
1. A hedge funds lends a lot of money (say, $100mil) to a company.
2. Then a hedge fund buys "insurance" on this $100mil, say, 10 times over. So in case of a company-borrower default on $100mil, a hedge fund gets $1bn.
3. In parallel a hedge fund takes over some control over a company on one side, and on the other, pulls the plug on this $100mil loan, demanding repayment, forcing a company into default and bankruptcy. When it happens a hedge fund ends up with $1bn payment (minus some millions of the costs of operations).
(For all those not that clever in finance, it is the same strategy as if you insured your house 10 times over, and then left on holidays without turning off the 30 years old chips deep fryer.)
As suggested in an article, ”Is another loot going on now?”, a lot of taxpayers’ money that was used to rescue the banks, or has been supplied as a part of quantitative easing, is likely to end up in offshore companies, hedge funds and all that. If you ever wondered how they make loads of money, you have this example above. There are many more other ways. It is a self-perpetuating machine that is designed to make money for financiers involved and rob shareholders, stakeholders, taxpayers, etc: to hold them by their throat, in the same way as loan sharks control their victims. It is not really that clever or intelligent: an par with sophistication of Albanian gangsters in 1996 -1997.
The fact that the system allows such arrangements means that it is criminal and the prosecution authorities must look into it. The fact that the politicians, our elected representatives, allow for such arrangements makes them materially and criminally responsible.
Greg, who is selling the insurance to hedge funds?
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