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		<title>HSBC Faces Madoff-Linked Repayment Claims in Dublin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s largest bank, is facing lawsuits in Ireland by investors faulting the lender for how it performed as custodian for money lost in Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme. A Dublin court may rule tomorrow on whether investors must wait to pursue claims against HSBC until suits by mutual funds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.K. Church Is Unlikely Defender of Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WSJ &#8211; The Church of England has emerged as an unlikely defender of the hedge-fund industry against the prospect of new regulations from the European Union. Only last year, the Archbishop of York was calling hedge funds &#8220;bank robbers&#8221; for profiting from the fall in bank stocks. Now, a group of six of the U.K.&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU Law May Cost Pension Industry Billions of Euros, AIMA Claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; The European Union&#8217;s plan to regulate hedge funds will cost the bloc&#8217;s pension industry about 25 billion euros ($36 billion) a year, the Alternative Investment Management Association said. The proposed law would drive pension funds toward more traditional assets such as equities and bonds or cut the returns on their investments in hedge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US enters Europe&#8217;s fund debate</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2009/us-enters-europes-fund-debate.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian &#8211; The move wades the US into a fierce battle between the UK and other parts of Europe over how tough regulation should be. Some nations, led by Germany and France, are calling for wholesale regulation of financial services in the wake of last fall&#8217;s crisis, but the UK says that overly stringent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEP says hedge fund law needs refining</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; A draft European Union law that will require hedge fund managers to be authorised needs refining to cover other types of alternative investments better, a senior MEP said on Tuesday. The Alternative Investment Fund Managers law is before the European Parliament and EU states for adoption, but is already subject to heated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the sun setting on London&#8217;s financial reign?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globe and Mail &#8211; Paris, so far, has emerged as the most serious challenger. But Mr. Sarkozy may be his own worst enemy on this file. The reason: He and his German allies are wholesale supporters of the European Union effort to rein in the hedge funds even though the funds can take little blame [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU assembly flexes muscles, fast reforms may be hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters AlertNet &#8211; The newly elected European parliament starts its five-year term on Tuesday in a combative mood which could slow the passage of laws intended to fight Europe&#8217;s worst economic crisis in decades. At its first session since an election in June, the assembly will put off for at least two months a vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group Backs Mandatory Hedge Fund Registration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times Blogs &#8211; The compulsory registration of hedge fund managers was backed by a global regulatory body on Monday in an effort to restore investor confidence. The International Organization of Securities Commissions, representing regulators from more than 100 countries, said the $1.3 trillion hedge fund sector did not cause the credit crunch but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Funds’ ‘Dangerous Opponent’ Rasmussen Pushes EU Crackdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Buyout firms and hedge funds, &#8220;Read my lips: You&#8217;re going to have regulation.&#8221; So says Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, the Socialist Party president who conducted a two-year campaign for the first European Union regulations governing so-called alternative investors. Hedge funds and private-equity firms, which manage 2 trillion euros ($2.8 trillion) in the region, are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myners pledges vigorous campaign against EU hedge fund curbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wealth Bulletin &#8211; Paul Myners has vowed to fight &#8220;tooth and nail&#8221; to revise a directive from Brussels that would give the European Union the power to set limits on how much hedge funds are allowed to borrow. The draft legislation has triggered panic in the industry and prompted several senior figures to threaten to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Switzerland &#8211; a hedge fund haven?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[World Radio Switzerland &#8211; Several major hedge funds in London say they&#8217;re considering moving abroad, notably to Switzerland. They are angered by a proposition from the European Union that would require more accountability and limit the amount of money they can borrow. Switzerland is an attractive destination because it is easier to register and launch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Managers With Largest Portfolios Face EU Regulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge fund managers who run the largest 15 percent of portfolios in the European Union would have to report risks, debts and trading activities to regulators under a draft proposal to tighten oversight after the financial crisis. The EU&#8217;s executive agency in Brussels is weighing plans to regulate &#8220;alternative investment fund managers&#8221; who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germany calls for tougher EU hedge fund plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; European Union proposals for the regulation of hedge funds should go further in forcing them to use more of their own capital and reflect risks on their books, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck told a newspaper. &#34;The EU proposal contains good ideas, but it doesn&#8217;t go far enough,&#34; Steinbrueck told the taz newspaper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France to call for hedge fund crackdown</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Focus Infomation &#8211; France on Friday will press for tighter controls on hedge funds, urging other big industrialised nations to strengthen regulation of the industry and compel banks that lend them money to hold more capital. Paris wants the European Union, and eventually all leading economies, to beef up indirect regulation of hedge funds via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarkozy urges clampdown on hedge funds, offshores</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; President Nicolas Sarkozy called at a European Union summit on Wednesday for a clamp-down on hedge funds and offshore centres as part of efforts to better regulate the world financial system. &#34;I would propose a simple principle, that no financial institution should escape regulation and supervision,&#34; he said according to a copy of [...]]]></description>
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