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However, the SEC has gone a step further and asked a federal judge to appoint a temporary receiver for Amerindo Investment Advisors, the Amerindo Technology Fund's advisor, The Wall Street Journal reports. "There does not appear to be an individual at Amerindo with full decision-making authority," the SEC stated in its plea for a restraining order prohibiting the destruction of documents and disgorgement of ill-gotten gains.
Although the Amerindo Funds formally appointed Dana Smith, chief compliance officer, as acting president, the funds only had around $98 million in assets under management as of May 31, a little more than a tenth of total assets under management, which were $921.5 million. The board also closed the fund to new assets and is on the hunt for a new investment manager.
"As a precautionary measure, the Fund's auditors have been retained to conduct a special audit of the Fund," the SEC filing reads. In the meantime, trades in the portfolio can be made by any of the independent directors.
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