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Michael Wayne Williams
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- Company / entity
- Highguard Capital LP, Guardian Opportunity Management LP, Guardian Opportunity Fund
- Industry
- Hedge fund / private investment fund
- How investors were recruited
- In-person pitches and monthly performance "tear sheets" sent to investors and prospects; investors included a family office and a wealthy Mississippi family, and he persuaded earlier fund investors to roll redemptions into the new fund
- Pitch & red flags
- Solicited investors using "false performance returns"; said money would be used "to launch and grow the Guardian Opportunity Fund"
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