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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:23 AM Jan 2015

Another Wall St Insider Found Dead: Hedge fund founder Thomas Gilbert shot dead in NY

Wall St. CEOs have been falling like flies. Regardless of very suspicious circumstances in many cases, most of these deaths were immediately deemed "suicides", nothing to see her. This one not so much.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/02/a-rash-of-deaths-and-a-missing-reporter-–-with-ties-to-wall-street-investigations/
http://wallstreetbear.com/board/view.php?topic=123158
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/28/jp-morgan-executive-falls-to-his-death-from-jp-morgan-building-in-what-may-have-been-suicide.html
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2536949/pg5
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2008/12/31/suicides-on-wall-street.html

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Hedge fund founder Thomas Gilbert shot dead in NY
4 January 2015 * BBC

The founder of a $200m (£130m) hedge fund, Thomas Gilbert Sr, has been shot dead in his flat in New York's Manhattan, police say.


US media reported that Mr Gilbert had been involved in a domestic argument.

No-one has been arrested. Police want to speak to Mr Gilbert's son in connection with the incident. Mr Gilbert, 70, was the founder and president of Wainscott Capital Partners, having started the fund in 2011.

US media said the body was found at about 15:30 local time (20:30 GMT) in a bedroom in the flat in Beekman Place, and that a gun had been recovered from the room.

"Right now, we're looking to speak to his son, who was the last person to see him alive," police spokesman Lt John Grimpel said, without identifying the son.

Mr Gilbert was a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. The hedge fund focuses on the biotech and health care industries.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30677565
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Another Wall St Insider Found Dead: Hedge fund founder Thomas Gilbert shot dead in NY (Original Post) 99th_Monkey Jan 2015 OP
There are 11,000 hedge funds in the US, and our male suicide rate is 20 per 100,000 Recursion Jan 2015 #1
Who will direct the film about this? flamingdem Jan 2015 #2
Corruption kills CountAllVotes Jan 2015 #3

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
1. There are 11,000 hedge funds in the US, and our male suicide rate is 20 per 100,000
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:26 AM
Jan 2015

(I'm assuming hedge fund managers are all male, which isn't true but is close enough.)

That would lead us to expect two suicides among hedge fund CEOs per year, on average. (There's more to "Wall Street" than hedge funds, also...)

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