Monday, June 25, 2007

SEC probing Bear hedge fund losses-BusinessWeek

(Reuters) - Both funds suffered big losses after making bad bets in repackaged subprime mortgage loans, a market that headed south when default rates started rising.



The Enhanced Leverage fund said in May that it was down 6.5 percent in April, but on June 7 said its April loss was actually 18.97 percent, BusinessWeek said. It did not provide a reason for the discrepancy.


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