Reserve Primary Fund, the failed $62.5 billion money-market fund run by Bruce R. Bent and his son Bruce R. Bent II, was faced with an economic storm much like Hurricane Sandy, which swept through the northeastern U.S. last week, a lawyer for the two men told jurors in Manhattan.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims the Bents, their investment advisory firm Reserve Management Co. and Resrv Partners Inc. defrauded customers by falsely claiming they would support the fund financially when it faced a run by investors in the wake of the 2008 Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. bankruptcy.
The fund held $785 million in Lehman debt on Sept. 15, 2008, the day Lehman filed the biggest bankruptcy in history, causing the run on the fund and triggering its failure the following day when it "broke the buck" by failing to maintain a $1-a-share net asset value.
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