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		<title>EU directive may cost funds 3.2 billion euros</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/10/2009/eu-directive-may-cost-funds-32-billion-euros.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds and private equity could face more than 3 billion euros in costs and investors could see fund choice shrink by up to 40 percent due to proposed new EU rules, a Financial Services Authority report said. The analysis of the impact of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive conducted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D.E. Shaw, Hedge Fund Manager, Gets Permit to Operate in Dubai</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/09/2009/de-shaw-hedge-fund-manager-gets-permit-to-operate-in-dubai.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; D.E. Shaw &#38; Co., the $29 billion investment firm run by David Shaw, said the Dubai Financial Services Authority granted its Middle East unit a license to operate from the Dubai International Financial Centre. The firm aims to build on its public and private investment through regional unit D.E. Shaw &#38; Co. MENA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FSA to triple some fines</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2009/fsa-to-triple-some-fines.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; Britain&#8217;s Financial Services Authority (FSA) plans to triple some of the fines it imposes on financial sector wrongdoers as part of a crackdown on offences such as mis-selling and insider dealing. The bigger fines are designed to deter firms and individuals from breaking market rules by making the costs of doing so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darling warns banks of return to risk-taking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; Alistair Darling has warned that he will impose tougher regulation to avoid a repeat of the banking crisis amid fears of a return of the bonus-driven, risk-taking culture in the City. The Chancellor told The Independent newspaper that bankers who are too complacent will be &#8220;brought back to earth&#8221; by new legislation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK FSA Extends Reporting for Short-Selling Financial Stocks</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/06/2009/uk-fsa-extends-reporting-for-short-selling-financial-stocks.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds and other investors who short-sell shares in Britain&#8217;s financial companies must continue to disclose their trades, the U.K.&#8217;s financial regulator said. A reporting requirement put in place by the Financial Services Authority in January will continue until new short- selling rules come into place, the agency said in a statement today. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City hits out at EU hedge fund proposal</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/city-hits-out-at-eu-hedge-fund-proposal.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; The role of the City of London as one of the world&#8217;s preeminent financial centres came under attack for the second time in two weeks yesterday, this time from proposed EU rules for private equity and hedge funds. The EU wants private equity firms with more than &#8364;500 million under management and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weavering Capital collapses over mystery trade</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/weavering-capital-collapses-over-mystery-trade.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; Weavering Capital, one of London&#8217;s oldest hedge funds, was today in the hands of liquidators just a week after it discovered that its flagship fund&#8217;s main investment was a derivatives trade with an offshore company controlled by its founding chief executive. PricewaterhouseCoopers, the auditor and consultancy, confirmed this morning that it had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK financial services regulator proposes shakeup</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/uk-financial-services-regulator-proposes-shakeup.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (AP) &#8211; Britain&#8217;s financial services watchdog proposed sweeping changes to global banking regulations on Wednesday, including a crackdown on the &#34;shadow banking&#34; activities of institutions like hedge funds. The government-commissioned banking services report recommends new rules on a wide range of issues from increased requirements on banks on holding capital to stricter controls on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial watchdog out to clip the hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; Secretive hedge funds will eventually be subject to the same supervisory rules as banks, under a tightening of Britain&#8217;s system of regulation. The changes, which will require banks and other lenders to build up their reserves in healthy economic times, could become the basis for international efforts to overhaul regulation at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Graphical Look at Hedge Fund Leverage</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/a-graphical-look-at-hedge-fund-leverage.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; Britain&#8217;s Financial Services Authority (FSA) recently found that hedge fund leverage was nearly extinct (for now). In what is billed by the FT as the &#8220;only authoritative data on the opaque industry&#8221;, the FSA found that the average hedge fund had leverage of 1.15x, down from about 2x a year ago and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FSA faces multimillion claim for failing to stop Terry Freeman trading</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/fsa-faces-multimillion-claim-for-failing-to-stop-terry-freeman-trading.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; The Financial Services Authority is facing a multimillion-pound compensation claim from a group of investors who say that the City watchdog failed to stop the activities of a suspected rogue trader. Former clients of GFX Capital Markets, which has collapsed with estimated losses of &#163;44 million, say that the FSA knew of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Falls in Hedge Fund Borrowing</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/big-falls-in-hedge-fund-borrowing.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial Times &#8211; Hedge funds cut their borrowing to almost nothing in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, according to research by the City watchdog. Data compiled by the Financial Services Authority show that leverage fell to just 1.15 times hedge fund net assets in October, down from almost twice a year earlier. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson nets £100m from RBS slide</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/01/2009/paulson-nets-100m-from-rbs-slide.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian Unlimited &#8211; Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson has made a &#163;100m profit by betting that the Royal Bank of Scotland&#8217;s share price would fall dramatically, according to calculations by the Guardian, adding fuel to the debate about the impact of short-selling on bank stocks. New York-based Paulson, who made more than $3bn by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund chiefs face grilling on role in crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/01/2009/hedge-fund-chiefs-face-grilling-on-role-in-crisis.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[guardian.co.uk &#8211; Secretive hedge fund barons, blamed by many for undermining Britain&#8217;s financial stability, will be unmasked on Tuesday when they are forced into the public spotlight by the powerful Treasury select committee. As suggestions grow that hedge funds have made huge sums shorting UK bank stocks and sterling, the billionaire Chris Hohn and Liberal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short-sellers are back with sharpened tools</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/01/2009/short-sellers-are-back-with-sharpened-tools.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WalesOnline &#8211; Last week saw the return of the credit crunch&#8217;s bogey product: short selling. The practice was banned by the Financial Services Authority last September after it was blamed for wiping millions off the value of bank shares, betting as it did that prices would fall as the recession bit deeper. At the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fund admits short-selling bank shares</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/01/2009/fund-admits-short-selling-bank-shares.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[guardian.co.uk &#8211; A hedge fund admitted yesterday it had been speculating that shares in Barclays would fall. The admission by Lansdowne Partners that it had been shorting Barclays shares on Friday &#8211; a day when the bank lost a quarter of its value &#8211; came amid concern that hedge funds could be blamed for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.K. Plans to End Ban on Shorting</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/01/2009/uk-plans-to-end-ban-on-shorting.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/01/2009/uk-plans-to-end-ban-on-shorting.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal &#8211; The U.K.&#8217;s markets regulator plans to end its ban on short selling of financial stocks. The Financial Services Authority said Monday that it would continue to ask hedge funds, which said the ban had hurt markets and failed in its objectives, to disclose short positions in banks and other financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Marshals Service to Help Clean Up Hedge Fund Mess</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2008/us-marshals-service-to-help-clean-up-hedge-fund-mess.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2008/us-marshals-service-to-help-clean-up-hedge-fund-mess.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; While the aftermath of the collapsed Bayou hedge fund may have left investors with nothing more than shock, the U.S. Marshals are trying to recoup some of the losses that were suffered.&#160; By selling Bayou&#8217;s failed investments, they are recovering some $115 million from the fund that once squandered over $300 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Bail for Hedge Fund Schemer Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2008/no-bail-for-hedge-fund-schemer-israel.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2008/no-bail-for-hedge-fund-schemer-israel.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Chances are, when you stage a suicide to avoid a 20-year prison sentence and spark an international manhunt, you&#8217;re probably not going to have the luxury of being granted bail.&#160; That&#8217;s exactly what happened when Judge Colleen McMahon denied Samuel Israel III in a federal court in Manhattan last week. Not [...]]]></description>
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