Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board filed a lawsuit on Friday against troubled manager Saba Capital Management and its founder, Boaz Weinstein, for allegedly manipulating the value of assets.
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In a suit filed by the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, once one of the biggest investors in the $1.6 billion Saba Capital Management, the pension fund accused Weinstein of “shortchanging” it by marking down a “significant” portion of the fund’s assets after the retirement plan asked that all its money be returned at the end of the first quarter. The next month, after the pension’s exit, Saba raised the value of the holdings, according to the lawsuit.
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The court fight could invite scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has cited valuations as one of its priorities this year and anticipates bringing cases involving pricing of portfolios.
The pension fund, which oversees the retirement savings of Canadian federal public servants, said it was the Saba Offshore Feeder Fund’s largest investor, having invested $500 million over the course of 2012 and 2013 and accounting for 55 percent of the fund’s assets. The plan said it had asked Saba for its money back early this year, saying Saba’s 2014 losses appeared to be “unrelated to any market development that could or should have adversely affected the fund’s performance had the fund been properly managed,’’ according to the lawsuit.
Canada’s Public Sector Pension oversees about $85 billion in assets.
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