Frederick S. Mates
Frederick S. Mates, aka Frederic Mates, founded in August 1967 the Mates Investment Fund, a high-flying mutual fund during the 'Go-Go' 60s that later crashed in the bear market of the early 1970s.[1] Mates ran his fund from an office he dubbed the "kibbutz" and with a young staff he called his "flower children".[1] Mates put most of his fund into a letter stock known as Omega Equities. Mates in determining his funds assets assigned a value to the barely traded Omega of $16 a share, while having purchased the stock at $3.25 a share. Mates got into trouble over this practice[citation needed] which was routine in the 1960s[citation needed] and not uncommon even today[citation needed], of accounting for letter stocks at a price different from what was paid for it. As a result, when confidence was lost in Mates' mutual fund and investors wanted to cash out[citation needed], redemptions had to be suspended for a while, which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission condoned[citation needed].
Mates was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1954. According to a New York Times obituary, Mates died in Kansas City on December 25, 1982.[2]
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- ^ a b Brooks, John (21 September 1999). The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s. John Wiley & Sons. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-471-35755-1.
- ^ "Frederic S. Mates, 50, Mutual Fund Executive". The New York Times. December 30, 1982. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
References[edit]
- John Brooks Wiley. The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s. New Ed edition (September 10, 1999) Excerpt
- Roger Lowenstein. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist. Random House 1995. ISBN 0-679-41584-X
- Returns for illiquid holdings in mutual funds are overstated study by Nicolas Bollen and Veronika Pool
- Time magazine Mates Checked Jan. 03, 1969
- Valerie Mates on Google Answers
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