The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether an Atlanta-based hedge fund is violating federal securities laws by guaranteeing to its investors that they won’t lose money. Statim Holdings Inc., headed by Joseph Meyer, Jr., is the parent company for Arjun LP, a hedge fund that previously ranked eighth among hedge funds with between $250 million and $1 billion in assets.
According to Meyer, the hedge fund’s computer-based approach is so foolproof that he guarantees that individuals who invest in Arjun will never lose any of their principal. “I’ve got a spreadsheet that did the calculations,” Meyer says of his system. “And then I just got coders to code it, so that the computer’s coming up with it, ’cause I can’t, I couldn’t, manually do something like that.” However, according to Bloomberg News, Statim is under investigation in Georgia after the company did not submit to an audit. The Georgia Secretary of State launched a probe in 2015 after it discovered “multiple irregularities” involving Statim and its Arjun hedge fund.
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