What's the expression? Something smells fishy in Denmark.
According to an article in Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. racked up trading profits for itself every day last quarter, but its clients who followed the firm’s investment advice fared far worse.
Makes you wonder why you would be a client of Goldman, unless they are so big and powerful you have no choice. Just wondering?
From http://www.bloomberg.com/:
Seven of the investment bank’s nine “recommended top trades for 2010” have been money losers for investors who adopted the New York-based firm’s advice, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from a Goldman Sachs research note sent yesterday. Clients who used the tips lost 14 percent buying the Polish zloty versus the Japanese yen, 9.4 percent buying Chinese stocks in Hong Kong and 9.8 percent trading the British pound against the New Zealand dollar.
Goldman Sachs executives have grappled before with questions about whether they’re better at making money for the firm than for their clients, according to an internal e-mail dated Sept. 26, 2007, that was released by a U.S. Senate subcommittee last month.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Goldman on April 16 accusing the company of misleading investors in a mortgage-linked asset. Goldman denies those allegations and said it will fight the charges.
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