Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Déjà vu: For Some PFG Customers 'It's MF Global All Over Again'


Andreas Diessbacher, head of trading firm White River Group, had $8 million in investor money locked up when MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed in October. On Tuesday, he arrived at his office in the Chicago Board of Trade to deal with $9 million in frozen funds due to the failure of brokerage firm PFGBest.

"I thought, this can't happen. Right after MF?" said Mr. Diessbacher, 39 years old, whose firm manages $25 million in client funds.

Scores of commodities investors spent Tuesday in a chilling repeat of the fall of MF Global less than a year ago, scrambling for answers ...

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