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Finance career
Busson entered the world of hedge funds in 1986 working with Dubin Swieca.[8] He was later employed as a marketing representative for Paul Tudor Jones's fund Tudor Investments.
In 1991, Busson founded the EIM Group to provide fund-of-fund management services to the growing institutional market for hedge funds.[9] On 8 December 2008, EIM Group was reported as being a victim of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme.[10]
In 1994 he was accused of money laundering working for the Ben Ladin bank in Geneva managing hedge funds for the Ben Ladin brothers prior the attacks in New York. He did not deny being a hedge fund manager in the British Virgin Island; he was at some point arrested and questioned by the FBI to trace funds for Al Qaeda Saudi terrorism networks . [11]
In December 2013, Busson merged his EIM group with Swiss listed investment company Gottex Fund Management Holdings.[12][13] In July 2015, Busson was named the next executive chairman of Gottex Fund Management for the interim, following Joachim Gottschalk stepping down from the position and finding a permanent executive chairman.[14]
Gottex Fund Management rebranded itself as LumX and was eventually delisted from the Swiss Stock Exchange in June 2020 after suffering losses of more than $55 million the previous five years, essentially ending Busson's time as a hedge fund manager.[15][16]
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