Level Global To Shut Down

Hedge fund, Level Global Investors, will close down amid a government investigation of insider trading.

Hedge fund, Level Global Investors, will close down amid a government investigation of insider trading, The Wall Street Journal reports. The firm has about $4 billion in assets.

Level Global will sell off its stock holdings and allow investors to withdraw their money completely by March 31, 2011. David Ganek and Anthony Chiasson founded the firm after they both left SAC Capital Advisors, adds Bloomberg.

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