Pensions&Investments By James Comtois September 04, 2020 Participants in the Teamster Members Retirement Plan filed suit against Allianz Global Investors and its subsidiaries saying investors in a hedge fund it managed lost nearly $1 billion. Teamster Members Retirement Plan (formerly known as GCIU Inter-Local Pension Plan) was an investor in AllianzGI's Structured Alpha U.S. Equity [...]
Law360 By Dean Seal (September 3, 2020, 5:06 PM EDT) -- Investors in a hedge fund that lost nearly $1 billion during the coronavirus-induced market crash earlier this year say "extreme risk taking" by fund manager Allianz Global Investors caused the fund to collapse in a proposed class action in New York federal court. A [...]
THE SUN, MILLIONS of Brits have been ripped off by a shipping company scam which inflated the price of new cars. Drivers who bought or leased a new motor between October 2006 and September 2015 could receive a payout, after five shipping companies fixed their charges for bringing models into the UK. The firms - [...]
DEALERSHIPS could be in line for a refund of up to £60 per new car that they bought, thanks to a class action against five major shipping companies. Car Dealer Magazine, It follows a multi-million-euro fine by the European Commission after MOL, ‘K’ Line, NYK, WWL/EUKOR and CSAV were found to have violated EU competition [...]
Law360, London (March 2, 2020, 2:51 PM GMT) -- Five shipping companies fined for running a cartel for transporting cars to the U.K. have become the target of a £150 million ($189 million) million U.S.-style class action in London led by law firm Scott+Scott UK LLP. The claim has been filed at the U.K. Competition [...]
The Daily Mail - Millions of motorists have been ripped off in a £150million delivery scheme to inflate the price of new cars, it is claimed. Eight in ten new cars have seen price increases of up to £60 after shipping firms conspired to fix delivery costs, according to a lawsuit. A total of 17million [...]
Law360, London (February 18, 2020, 8:55 PM GMT) -- A judge ordered Credit Suisse to pay some of a former employee's costs on Tuesday after he largely fended off a bid to pare down his £46 million ($60 million) lawsuit over his imprisonment in Romania on espionage charges while working for the lender. In his [...]
Law360, London (November 5, 2019, 3:28 PM GMT) -- A consumer antitrust suit brought by investors seeking at least £1 billion ($1.3 billion) from five banking giants, including JPMorgan and Barclays, over allegations of foreign exchange rigging is set to be heard at a London tribunal on Wednesday in a test case for US-style class [...]
MLex - In Brief : State utility companies in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman have filed damages claims against power-cable producers over their involvement in a multiyear global cartel, MLex has learned. The antitrust suits, filed in the Netherlands, list 15 target companies, including Prysmian and ABB, and the claimants seek losses from cable [...]
The Economist, The CAT and the (alleged) fiddle Banks are in the frame for Britain’s latest collective-action claim THE LAUGHING stopped long ago. Between 2007 and 2013, in online chatrooms called “Three Way Banana Split”, “Essex Express ’n the Jimmy” and other rib-ticklers, currency traders yapped about all sorts of things—including market tactics. The banter [...]