Peregrine Financial Trustee Seeks to Return $41 Mln to Clients

Peregrine Financial Group’s bankruptcy trustee plans to return up to $41 million to former customers of the failed futures brokerage in the second payout since the firm collapsed 17 months ago. Court-appointed trustee Ira Bodenstein is seeking to return about 7 percent, or $27.5 million, to Peregrine customers who traded on U.S. exchanges, according to court filings. In the first payout last year, the group, which comprised the bulk of the firm’s clients, received back about 30 percent of the money they had in accounts when Peregrine failed. Clients who traded on foreign markets would get back about 45 percent…

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