Participants in the Madoff investment scandal group of hedge funds owned by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co, as well as, its parent companies in December 2010, seeking more than $2 billion and alleging that company executives ignored "obvious warning signs" that Madoff was running a fraud. Picard alleged that Tremont failed to do any meaningful review of Madoff's operations or purported investment results, blindly allowing Rye to turn over half its $6 billion in client assets to Madoff and losing half that money when the scheme finally collapsed. The payment of $1 billion to the Madoff truste, provided by Massachusetts Mutual Life as a loan to
Global Investment House Global Investment House Global Investment House (Global) is an investment company incorporated in 1998, and falls under the regulation of the Capital Markets Authority of Kuwait. In late 2008 and early 2009 Global was hit by cash flow problems affecting its operations in several countries. Kuwait's Global Investment House 2010 loss $260 million. Global’s assets under management as of December 2014 were KD 1.188 billion (USD 3.6 billion). On 22 December 2008, following Standard and Poor's downgrade of their debt to "speculative default" from investment grade a week before,it was reported that the company defaulted on $200 million in loans,