AFP, 11 Oct 2008
SINGAPORE (AFP) — About 600 angry investors who lost their savings because of the global financial turmoil gathered in Singapore on Saturday, urging the central bank to help them recover their money.
Many of the investors who trooped to the city-state's Speakers' Corner were pensioners who invested their life savings in financial products linked to collapsed US investment bank Lehman Brothers and other institutions.
Tan Kin Lian, the former chief of a Singapore insurance cooperative who organised the gathering, urged the investors to bond together so that they will have a bigger chance of being heard.
He urged them to make individual affidavits and file their complaints as a group before the financial institution where they invested their money.
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