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Date: 09-2009
Securities Litigation and Consulting Group, Inc. Releases Leveraged Municipal “Arbitrage” Study


Securities Litigation and Consulting Group, Inc. ("SLCG") has issued an updated study on leveraged municipal bond hedge funds -- including Citigroup's MAT 3, MAT V and Falcon Strategies. The study reports that more than 35 similar hedge funds, including Stone & Youngberg Municipal Advantage Fund, 1861 Capital Management, Gem Capital, Rockwater Hedge Fund, LLC, and Blue River Asset Management Main Muni Fund were mis-marketed to investors as high yield, low risk alternatives to traditional municipal bond funds entitled "Leveraged Municipal Bond Arbitrage: What Went Wrong?"


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