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		<title>Funds Try to Ward Off New Regulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times &#8211; Hedge funds, trying to separate themselves from the big Wall Street banks, are stepping up their efforts to head off new regulation from Washington. Representatives of the industry’s main lobbying group met on Wednesday with the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner; Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Halts Phony Investment Fund By San Diego Fraudster</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday recieved permission to freeze the assets of Mohit A. Khanna, who alledgedly raised as much as $70 million from 300 investors though his fund, MAK 1 Enterprises Group, LLC. The SEC says he solicited investors in Southern California and several other states, as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Aether Systems CEO David Oros launches hedge fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baltimore Business Journal &#8211; Former Aether Systems CEO David Oros has launched a $3 million hedge fund called Global Domain Vector Fund LLC, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Oros is managing director and chief administrative officer of Baltimore&#8217;s Global Domain Partners LLC. He is joined by Jonathan Caplis, a director at Global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Amends Rules to Issue More Subpoenas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) &#8211; Off-shore hedge fund law firm, Sadis &#38; Goldberg LLP, sent out a letter to their clients announcing that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appears determined to issue more subpoenas and give people more incentives to cooperate with investigations as it works to enhance its oversight of the financial markets.&#160;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BofA shares jump after exec, hedge fund buy shares</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press &#8211; Shares of Bank of America shot up Thursday as a new executive at the bank, as well as a prominent hedge-fund manager, decided to place big bets on the company by buying up blocks of shares. Shares jumped $1.07, or 6.7 percent, to close at $17. Sallie Krawcheck, the former Citigroup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Pequot Capital Management, founder Samberg receive SEC Wells notices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News1130.com &#8211; The Securities and Exchange Commission is continuing its investigation of possible insider trading involving hedge fund Pequot Capital Management and its founder Arthur Samberg, according to a letter to investors obtained by The Wall Street Journal. The SEC has been examining whether Pequot traded Microsoft Corp. shares on confidential information provided by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson Hedge Fund Buys Banks That Lost Value in Credit Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; John Paulson, the hedge-fund manager whose wagers against the U.S. housing market helped him earn an estimated $2.5 billion last year, bought Bank of America Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. stock in the second quarter, while adding to stakes in gold companies. His firm, Paulson and Co., bought 168 million shares of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barakett’s Atticus Fund Jumps Back Into Stocks, Filing Shows</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Atticus Capital LP, the New York- based hedge-fund firm run by Timothy Barakett, reversed course in the second quarter, investing more than $3.5 billion in U.S.- listed stocks as equity markets recovered. Atticus bought $355 million in shares of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America Corp., a new position, according to a filing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Fund Manager Settles Insider-Trading Claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; A Dallas hedge-fund manager and entities he owns agreed to pay $788,016 to settle U.S. government claims they made more than $500,000 by shorting shares of companies while using inside information that issuers would conduct private placements. Edwin Buchanan Lyon IV, 42, and his companies and funds agreed to disgorge $467,728, including interest, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pequot Trading in Google, Cox, Premcor Sparked Warnings to SEC</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Pequot Capital Management Inc., once the world&#8217;s biggest hedge-fund manager, was cited in at least 44 private reports from exchange watchdogs in the past four years alerting U.S. regulators to potential insider trading, market manipulation or other misconduct, government documents show. Trades linked to Google Inc., Cox Communications Inc., International Securities Holdings Inc., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Chief of AIG Settles SEC Case for $15 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ledger &#8211; Federal regulators announced an agreement with Maurice R. Greenberg on Thursday to settle accusations that he oversaw an accounting fraud at the American International Group. But Mr. Greenberg did not go quietly. Shortly after the announcement from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr. Greenberg issued a defiant statement saying he had &#8221;no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawsuit says hedge-fund manager stole $750,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette &#8211; The family of a Cambria County manufacturer has filed a lawsuit claiming that a New York hedge-fund manager illegally took $750,000 from its trust fund. The lawsuit, filed by the family of Frank Calandra Jr., was moved to federal court yesterday. It names as defendants Signature Bank Corp. and Cushner &#38; Garvey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strong payout near resolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel &#8211; Five years after regulators forced the sale of Strong Funds to Wells Fargo and Co. at the height of a national mutual fund scandal, investors in 24 former Strong Funds are moving closer to receiving their share of a $154&#8194;million settlement. A proposal for doling out the money was developed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investment Firms&#8217; Donations May Be Curbed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[istockAnalyst.com &#8211; The Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously endorsed the proposal amid widening investigations of so-called pay-to-play donations by private equity and hedge fund executives who jockey for lucrative fees to manage some of the more than $2.2 trillion in assets held by public pension funds. &#34;The selection of investment advisers to manage public plans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedging on Hedge Fund Scrutiny Fine With Court: Ann Woolner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Let&#8217;s say you hand a million dollars or more to an investment advisory firm that boasts a sterling reputation, grand results and a promise to thoroughly investigate hedge funds before recommending them. For all the claims of super due diligence, this fine firm sinks your money into what turns out to be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perry hedge fund settles with SEC over Mylan stake</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund firm Perry Corp will pay $150,000 to settle accusations that it failed to report a substantial stake in Mylan Inc, purchased to support a proposed 2004 takeover of King Pharmaceuticals, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday. The New York-based firm, led by Richard Perry and with $8.8 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major U.S. exchange chief urges SEC-CFTC merger</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; The two main regulators of U.S. financial markets should merge, the chief executive of America&#8217;s largest options exchange says in remarks to be delivered to a congressional panel on Friday. William Brodsky, CEO of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), says in a written statement that there is a &#34;compelling need for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MFA Comments On Obamas Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Richard H. Baker, President and CEO of the Managed Funds Association (MFA) wrote a letter to MFA members this afternoon, highlighting today&#8217;s announcement by the Obama Administration requiring all advisers to hedge funds and other private pools of capital, including private equity and venture capital funds, to register with the Securities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Gets Obama Hedge Fund Disclosure Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNBC &#8211; The Obama administration has sent legislation to Congress that would bring hedge funds and other private pools of capital under government supervision. The proposal calls for the Securities and Exchange Commission to oversee hedge, private equity and venture capital funds. By registering with the SEC, their books would be open to federal inspection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investor in Petters&#8217; alleged scheme charged</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kare11.com &#8211; An Illinois hedge fund manager who claimed to be the biggest victim of Minnesota businessman Tom Petters&#8217; alleged Ponzi scheme was actually a participant in it, the Securities and Exchange Commission says. Greg Bell and his company, Lancelot Investment Management, were charged with fraud Friday. The SEC said it also moved to freeze [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Fraudster Faces Up To 10 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) &#8211; &#8216;Hedge fund operator&#8217; Rod Stringer has pleaded guilty to money laundering in a $14 million Ponzi scheme, federal prosecutors say. He allegedly took money from 44 victims over 8 years, claiming to be &#34;a day trader and hedge fund operator, although he was not a licensed securities broker,&#34; the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts respond to SEC proposals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caymen Net News &#8211; Local hedge fund experts have reacted favourably to last week&#8217;s proposals by the Inspector General of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to increase fund regulation. The SEC has proposed that regulation of hedge funds and other investment advisors should be tightened in the wake of the SEC&#8217;s failure to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK fund manager settles US market-timing case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Houston Chronicle &#8211; A London-based hedge fund manager and its chief investment officer have agreed to a nearly $18 million settlement resolving U.S. regulators&#8217; allegations that one of its funds defrauded U.S. mutual funds and investors through trading practices such as market-timing. The Securities and Exchange Commission and Headstart Advisers Ltd. on Monday separately announced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CSX, hedge fund fight in Congress; troubled fund backs off activism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida Times-Union &#8211; CSX Corp.&#8217;s proxy fight with two hedge funds ended in September with four nominees from The Children&#8217;s Investment Fund Management LLP and 3G Capital Partners Ltd. winning election to CSX&#8217;s board. But even though the fight is long over, it continues to be in the news. Last week, Securities and Exchange Commission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC&#8217;s Aguilar urges tougher hedge fund regulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; A Democratic member of the Securities and Exchange Commission called for stricter supervision of hedge funds, particularly large funds that have an impact on the broader financial markets. Luis Aguilar said the market turmoil of the past year provides evidence that government oversight of hedge funds has not kept pace with the large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Requests Data From Two Dozen Firms in Pension Investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking information from more than two dozen pension funds, placement agents and other companies as it steps up an investigation into whether money managers made improper payments to win business. &#8220;The SEC is interested in finders&#8217; fees and other payments,&#8221; spokesman John Nester said late yesterday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowne and HedgeOp Join Forces to Launch Hedge Fund Compliance Software</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Bowne &#38; Co., Inc. has signed an alliance with HedgeOp Compliance to offer two new compliance solutions for hedge funds and other registered investment advisers. The first of the hedge fund tools, &#8216;Bowne ComplianceTrak&#8217;, is an integrated compliance tracking, monitoring and reporting system specifically designed for hedge fund professionals, enabling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tontine Partners raising new total return fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund manager Jeffrey Gendell is mounting a comeback after a turbulent 2008. Gendell&#8217;s Tontine Associates LLC, disclosed plans in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing to raise funds for a new total return hedge fund. So far, $12.6 million has been raised for on-shore and offshore versions of the fund, but that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gendell&#8217;s Tontine Partners Raises Money For New Hedge Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nasdaq.com &#8211; Jeffrey Gendell of Tontine Partners LP, who is closing two of his hedge funds after steep losses, has raised money for his new Tontine Total Return Fund, according to regulatory filings. The Tontine Total Return fund, which Gendell said would be launched in February, has received $11 million from investors, according to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC lawyers probed for insider trading</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Two U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement lawyers are under investigation by federal criminal authorities for allegedly using insider information to trade stocks, a report by the SEC&#8217;s internal watchdog said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office are conducting an investigation of possible criminal and civil violations. The report alleges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barakett sold most of fund&#8217;s U.S. stocks as markets declined</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tehran Times &#8211; Atticus Capital LP sold 23 of the 25 U.S.-listed stocks it owned in the first quarter as the New York-based hedge-fund firm run by Timothy Barakett put more money into cash while equity markets fell. Atticus sold 1.69 million shares of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, according to a filing with the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Target&#8217;s activist shareholder to hold town meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Times &#8211; Less than three weeks ahead of what&#8217;s expected to be a heated proxy contest at Target&#8217;s annual shareholders&#8217; meeting, activist shareholder William Ackman aims to strengthen his case to investors for a new slate of directors by personally introducing his roster at a town hall meeting here Monday. According to documents filed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beverley Hills hedge fund fraud halted</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hedge fund fraud that involved a pair of funds claiming to hold more than $800 million in assets has been halted, according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. In a statement, the regulatory body said the two funds lost money and contain less than $1 million. Bradley Ruderman is alleged to have raised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC needs hedge fund authority-Schapiro</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian Unlimited &#8211; The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission needs authority to require hedge fund advisers to register with the agency plus the power to examine funds&#8217; books, the agency&#8217;s chairman said on Tuesday. U.S. lawmakers are working to give the SEC the power to require hedge fund managers to register with the agency after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund bill to give SEC registration authority</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian Unlimited &#8211; A U.S. Senate bill to make the $1.3 trillion hedge fund industry more transparent would give federal regulators the authority to require fund managers to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the bill&#8217;s authors said on Monday. Earlier this year, Republican Senator Charles Grassley and Democratic Senator Carl Levin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC has about 150 hedge fund probes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; U.S. securities regulators have about 150 active hedge fund investigations and more than 50 probes involving credit default swaps and other derivatives, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro said on Monday. The SEC also has about two dozen active municipal securities investigations, possibly involving arbitrage-driven fraud, public corruption and price transparency, Schapiro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hennessee Group and co-founder settle with SEC over due diligence on Bayou hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times &#8211; When a well-known investment advisor gave the Securities and Exchange Commission some unsolicited advice this week about protecting investors in hedge funds, he had already been talking to the agency about his own behavior. About half an hour before Charles J. Gradante issued a public call Wednesday for the SEC to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Charges Hennessee On Bayou Hedge Fund Miss</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post Chronicle &#8211; U.S. securities regulators charged a prominent hedge fund industry executive on Wednesday with failing to properly review collapsed hedge fund Bayou Group before recommending that their clients invest. Hennessee Group and its principal Charles Gradante, who runs the New York-based group with his wife, failed to research the hedge fund group as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY AG and SEC probe pension fund investments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MSN MoneyCentral &#8211; A corruption scandal at the state&#8217;s retirement fund is the latest in a long string involving politically connected intermediaries called placement agents sometimes hired by investment firms hoping to land rich investment deals with pension officials, experts said. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the Securities and Exchange Commission are examining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York, SEC investigates Carlyle Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SmartBrief &#8211; Carlyle Group is being investigated by New York prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegations that it made improper payments to get investments from the state&#8217;s pension fund. The payments allegedly were made to intermediaries and might have totaled in the millions. The investigation involves several investment companies and a practice [...]]]></description>
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