SLOs covered by this Assignment:
A. Describe investment as one of the key areas of finance.
B. Explain the capital formation process.
C. Analyze the functioning of the Stock Market.
The Madoff investment scandal was a major case of stock and securities fraud discovered in late 2008. Watch the documentary in the below links:
➢ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO4CIPuaTJ4&t=810s
➢ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M3sHrVOddw
➢ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpjFIb0g6vE
➢ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVRysd1Ohvg ➢ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNV66Yr0fk
Assignment Questions:
➢ Who is Bernie Madoff? (i.e., provide a brief background about Bernie Madoff biography)
➢ Describe how a Ponzi Scheme works and explain the similarity between Bernie Madoff and Charles Ponzi?
➢ What type of investors did Bernie target?
➢ What were the strategies Bernie used to convince his investors and never get them suspicious?
➢ How did he conceal his fraud inside the company? Were there other players involved?
➢ How could he conceal his fraud from the regulator “Securities and Exchange Commission”?
➢ What were the fraud allegations presented by financial analyst “Harry Markopolos” to the SEC and what was the SEC’s reaction to them?
➢ How much did Bernie steal and what did Bernie do with the stolen money?
➢ When and how did the entire scandal broke?
➢ What were the penalties imposed on Bernie?
➢ What were the long-run negative effects of his fraud on the victimized investors and his own family (Wife and Sons)?
➢ What were the reforms made by SEC to reduce the chances of such fraud in the future?
➢ What are the lessons you personally learned after studying about Bernie Madoff scandal?
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