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Raj Rajaratnam ((タミル語:ராஜ் ராஜரத்தினம்); born Rajakumaran Rajaratnam; June 15, 1957) is a Sri Lankan-American former hedge fund manager and billionaire founder of the Galleon Group, a New York-based hedge fund management firm. On October 16, 2009, he was arrested by the FBI on allegations of insider trading, which also caused the Galleon Group to close. He stood trial in ''U.S. v Rajaratnam'' (09 Cr. 01184) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and on May 11, 2011 was found guilty on all 14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud. On October 13, 2011, Rajaratnam was sentenced to 11 years in prison and fined a criminal and civil penalty of over $150 million combined. As of January 14, 2013 Rajaratnam is incarcerated at Federal Medical Center, Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts, an administrative facility housing male offenders requiring specialized or long-term medical or mental health care. Rajaratnam's release date is July 4, 2021. ==Background and career== Rajaratnam is an ethnic Sri Lankan Tamil born in Colombo in the Dominion of Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka. His father was the head of the Singer Sewing Machine Co. in South Asia.〔Mehta, Suketu, ("The Outsider: In an exclusive interview, Raj Rajaratnam reveals ..." ), ''The Daily Beast'', October 23, 2011; retrieved 2011-10-26.〕 He attended S. Thomas' Preparatory School, Kollupitiya before his family migrated to England. Rajaratnam’s family emigrated to England in 1971, "sensing that the (Sri Lankan ethnic ) situation would get more violent".〔Mehta, Suketu. "The Outsider", ''Newsweek'' 158.18 (2011): 46–51. ''Academic Search Premier'', September 18, 2012.〕 He attended Dulwich College in London〔Lattman, Peter. (2012-12-13) (Raj Rajaratnam Speaks - NYTimes.com ). Dealbook.nytimes.com. Retrieved on 2013-07-18.〕 and later studied engineering at the University of Sussex, and then earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983.〔 He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1986.〔(Rajaratnam naturalization documents ), ancestry.com; accessed September 30, 2015.〕 He is married with three children and maintains residences in Connecticut, New York, Georgetown (DC) and Florida. According to ''Forbes'' magazine, Rajaratnam is a self-made billionaire hedge fund manager. He was the 236th richest American in 2009, with an estimated net worth of $1.8 billion.〔 He was the 262nd richest American in 2008, with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion. In 2009 he was the richest Sri Lankan-born individual in the world. Rajaratnam started his career as a lending officer at Chase Manhattan Bank where he specialized in business loans to technology companies. He joined the investment banking boutique Needham & Co. as an analyst in 1985, where he focused on the consumer electronics industry. He rapidly rose through the ranks, becoming the head of research in 1987 and the President in 1991, at the age of 34. At the company's behest, he started a hedge fund – the Needham Emerging Growth Partnership – in March 1992, which he later bought and renamed ''Galleon''. His hedge fund was valued at $3.7 billion in 2009, down from a peak of $7 billion in 2008. According to a 2009 investor letter his $1.2 billion Diversified Fund had a net annualized return of 22.3%.〔 Rajaratnam has been featured among the elite US money managers in a book called ''The New Investment Superstars.'' Initially, he primarily invested in technology and healthcare companies. He said that his best ideas came from frequent visits with the companies in which he invested and from conversations with executives who invested in his fund.〔Lois Peltz, ''The New Investment Superstars'', Wiley, 2001; ISBN 978-0-471-40313-5〕 After Rajaratnam's arrest, Galleon received requests from its investors for the withdrawal of $1.3 billion, which caused the fund to close. In a letter dated October 21, 2009, Rajaratnam informed his employees and investors that he intended to wind down all the hedge funds of the Galleon Group. Investors received the full balance of their initial investments, plus profits, in January 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raj Rajaratnam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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