From Deseret News archives:
Getting fund settlement is a waiting game
Other times, the investment is so bad that it's criminal.
Such is the plight for this week's reader.
Bob wrote in an e-mail that he owns a "dreadful" stock fund that agreed to pay $100 million to fund owners to settle New York state and federal Securities and Exchange Commission charges.
"Of course, no one has seen any of this money, and calls to the fund's corporate offices result in the comment that the decisions are in the hands of 'the regulators,"' Bob wrote. "I want to sell this stock but have held off because that might disqualify me from receiving any of the settlement. Am I safe to sell, or should I hold on further?"
Bob wrote that the company in question is Federated Investors, and he owns American Leaders Fund A.
To get some answers for Bob, I contacted Mark W. Pugsley, an attorney with Ray, Quinney & Nebeker in Salt Lake City who specializes in securities litigation and SEC enforcement cases.
Mark wrote in an e-mailed response that the settlement order between Federated and the SEC was signed way back in November 2005.
Mark wrote that, usually, distributions in this kind of settlement are made to investors based on the number of shares held at the time the illegal conduct occurred.
"However, it is not clear whether that is the case here, because the company has not published a distribution plan yet," Mark wrote. "According to the SEC settlement, all investors will receive '(i) their proportionate share of losses suffered by the fund due to market timing and late trading, and (ii) a proportionate share of advisory fees paid by funds that suffered such losses during the period of such market timing.'
"I think it's unlikely that a shareholder who sold before the distribution would be affected, but until the plan is published you cannot be 100 percent sure."
So, Bob, I guess that leaves you in limbo. It's hard to believe when the case started almost three years ago, but these things do seem to drag through the system, especially when a company is going to have to return money to investors.
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