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Cases / Investment funds & advisory

GPB Capital, Ascendant Capital, Ascendant Alternative Strategies

David Gentile, Jeffry Schneider, Jeffrey Lash

ReportedFeb 4, 2021
LocationManhasset, NY
Amount$1,700,000,000

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Company / entity
GPB Capital, Ascendant Capital, Ascendant Alternative Strategies
Industry
Private equity-style limited partnership funds
How investors were recruited
Funds marketed to investors through Ascendant Capital's employees, with promises of monthly distributions
Pitch & red flags
Promised "8% annualized distribution payment"; claimed distributions came "exclusively" from portfolio company monies

Pitch phrases from this case

Source

SEC official

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