New York (HedgeCo.net) – Bloomberg reports that hedge fund managers are being recruited by the SEC to boost oversight of the $14 trillion hedge fund industry.

“The fund world has become much more sophisticated and complex over the last decade,” said Steve Crimmins, a former SEC trial lawyer said to Bloomberg. “The SEC hasn’t had the resources or the full expertise needed to keep pace.”

The hedge fund SEC task force is looking for managers and people with “direct exposure to trading and operations” at hedge funds, Bloomberg said. The ad for 5 new recruits was posted by the SEC last month.

The SEC currently has five specialty units targeting financial misconduct ranging from insider trading to corporate bribery, the paper said. Officials say that the number of registered investment advisers jumped 50 percent to more than 11,000 from 2002 to 2009, excluding many offshore hedge funds and un-declared funds.

The application period is set to close April 19.

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