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In the age of Google, I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone trusted these guys with money. This is going to make a great HBO documentary soon.

 

Can you save us the google time and share some of your favorite highlights?

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

long story short, they invest [too much] highly regulated insurance capital in risky investments. big no-no and I can’t imagine NAIC is happy with ACAP (others should correct me if they have a more refined understanding of the situation)

 

Just read it and that’s hell of a story. Really curious to know how substantiated the claims of Leadenhall, one of the investors which filed a lawsuit, are when it presents them as “operating a giant shell game at best, and an outright Ponzi scheme at worst."

 

"...but wait, there's more..."

lol

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