Friday, February 15, 2008

Attention CSO Partners hedge fund investors, attorneys investigating customer claims

Citigroup has stopped investor redemptions in its London based hedge fund, CSO Partners.

"The bank has suspended investor withdrawals on the heels of Citigroup providing $100 million to stabilize the fund last month amid significant losses,'' said attorney Steven Caruso of Maddox, Hargett & Caruso, P.C. "CSO Partners hedge fund investors may have a variety of remedies that they should discuss with qualified counsel.''

Longtime fund manager, John Pickett, has left the fund following a bitter dispute with Citigroup executives and complaints from investors that the manager over concentrated the fund into a single investment that went bad.

"We believe that the outsized position taken by fund managers may have exceeded Citigroup internal trading limits and may demonstrate a failure by Citigroup to closely supervise and monitor Mr. Pickett's trading activities,'' added Ryan Bakhtiari of Aidikoff, Uhl & Bakhtiari.

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