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Former Calpers CEO Admits To Pay For Play Scheme

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Mark Melin
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Former CalPers CEO Fred Buenrostro, one time investment chief at the US’s largest state pension fund, is admitting to a pay-for-play scandal and is implicating his one-time collaborator.

Former Calpers CEO Admits To Pay For Play Scheme

Former Calpers CEO admits receiving payment for order flow

In recently released court documents, Buenrostro acknowledges he received what is known as “payment for order flow,” secret agreements to direct investments with favored companies and hedge funds.

Buenrostro claims he received $200,000 in cash, stuffed in a shoebox, from Alfred Villalobos that was one component of a longer relationship.  Villalobos is a third party marketer accused...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.