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Insider Trading - Corporate Information Leaks and Hedge Funds


Total Credits: 2 including 2 Behavioral Ethics - Non-technical

Average Rating:
   14
Categories:
ACPEN Industry Institute |  Ethics |  Industry
Speakers:
Gary Zeune, CPA |  Walt Pavlo |  Roomy Khan
Course Levels:
Intermediate
Duration:
2 Hours
License:

Dates


Description

Operation Perfect Hedge was the largest prosecution of those involved in insider trading on publicly traded companies.  In this course we breakdown the story of one hedge fund analyst and her role in developing corporate informants who provided her confidential information on companies.

 

Please Note:  This course is not approved for Texas, Florida, Virginia, Washington Ethics or any other state with a state specific ethics requirement.  Contact help@acpen.com if you have specific questions on your state.  

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives

* Ways to protect confidential information

* Motivations of hedge fund analysts who are looking for inside information

* How inside information is used to profit

* Consequences for companies and individuals involved in insider trading


Major Subjects

* Protecting Confidential Information Inside Publicly Traded Companies

* Hedge Fund Trading

* Financial Analysis

* Investor Relations

* Compliance


Course Materials

Speaker

Gary Zeune, CPA's Profile

Gary Zeune, CPA Related Seminars and Products

The Pros and the Cons


Gary Zeune has instructed Strategy Formulation and Implementation in the Executive MBA Program and Accounting and Honors Finance at The Ohio State University. He is also a member of the Education Executive Council and is past chairman of the Education Marketing and Public Relations Committees of The Ohio Society of CPAs. His other memberships include: the American Institute of CPAs, and the Regulation of Public Offerings Committee of the Ohio Division of Securities.

Prior to forming his consulting practice in 1986, Mr. Zeune was an Assistant Vice President of Corporate Finance at The Ohio Company, a Columbus, Ohio investment banking firm. He also spent more than five years in Treasury and Finance at Wendy's International, where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, financial and SEC reporting, and corporate finance. He was on the audit staff of Ernst & Ernst from 1973 to 1977; and taught accounting at Ohio University from 1970 to 1973, where he received his bachelors in mathematics and masters in accounting, with honors.


Walt Pavlo's Profile

Walt Pavlo Related Seminars and Products


Walt Pavlo is the president of Prisonology, an educational software supporting law firms and their clients on information about the federal prison system.  He is a contributor to Forbes.com where he writes on white-collar crime and is the co-author of Stolen Without A Gun, which he co-wrote with Neil Weinberg (Reporter at Bloomberg). Mr. Pavlo is a nationally recognized speaker who has been a part of training programs at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, major corporations, professional societies and top ranked MBA programs across the country.

Mr. Pavlo earned his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University and his MBA in Finance from Mercer University.  He is also a Journalist Law School Fellow at Loyola Law School (2014).

 


Roomy Khan's Profile

Roomy Khan Related Seminars and Products


Roomy Khan has over 20 years of combined professional experience in technology industry and Wall Street.  She was intimately involved in the Galleon insider trading case, the largest case successfully prosecuted by the U.S. government.  The investigation would ultimately result in over 90 convictions of those working in hedge funds, corporations and individual investors.  She cooperated with the federal government for over 6 years during which time she recorded numerous conversations with individuals and helped explain many of the technical aspects of financial markets.  She would eventually be sentenced to 1 year in prison for her own actions.    

Khan has a Masters in Physics from Kent State University, Masters in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from The Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.


Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Prerequisites None
Advanced Preparation None
Designed For

* Financial Analysts

* CPAs

* Lawyers

* Forensic Accountants

* Paralegals


Original Recording Date 04/05/2016
Yellow Book No
Course Developer The Pros and the Cons
Date Added to Catalog 03/28/2016

Additional Information

Complaint Resolution Policy Please contact Anne Taylor for any complaints. anne.taylor@acpen.com, (972-377-8199).
Official Registry Statement

Business Professionals' Network, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org


Instructional Delivery Method Group Internet Based
Refund/Cancellation Policy

Please contact the ACPEN help desk 1-877-602-9877 or help@acpen.com if you wish to cancel your attendance for a previously purchased webcast and are requesting a refund or transfer. 


Course Registration Requirements

Online Registration


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