Tag Archives: regulators
CIFSA calls for hedge funds dialogue
Caymen Net News – The Cayman Islands Financial Services Association (CIFSA) has addressed efforts to boost disclosure of information about hedge funds, and has cautioned that the move must be widely agreed and equally applied. Meanwhile, regulators at the Cayman […]
Hedge Fund Survey On Obama Regulations
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – A survey by RSM McGladrey, a financial services consultancy, found that hedge fund managers are surprisingly ready to work with SEC regulators to cooperate with authority, despite wide-spread wariness about over-excessive regulation from the Obama […]
UK fund manager settles US market-timing case
Houston Chronicle – A London-based hedge fund manager and its chief investment officer have agreed to a nearly $18 million settlement resolving U.S. regulators’ allegations that one of its funds defrauded U.S. mutual funds and investors through trading practices such […]
Hedge Fund Magazine Launch in September
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Euromoney Institutional Investor is planning to launch a new magazine and online offering covering US and international hedge funds in September. The company’s hedge fund publishing assets include Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine and Absolute Return […]
Hedge fund registration backed
Reuters – A global regulatory body backed compulsory registration of hedge fund managers on Monday to restore investor confidence, saying the $1.3 trillion sector did not cause the credit crunch but may have amplified its effects. The International Organization of […]
Group Backs Mandatory Hedge Fund Registration
New York Times Blogs – 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 […]
Carlyle Group Sets Sights On Battered Banks
Free Internet Press – With the leveraged-buyout business on life support, major private-equity firms such as the Carlyle Group are taking a closer look at the battered banking sector as a way to make money for their clients. Last September, […]
UK has uphill struggle over EU fund rules
guardian.co.uk – Investment companies and private equity firms suspect that they have been caught up in a directive whose real aim was hedge funds largely because it is so difficult to define hedge funds. The Group of 20 leading […]
Hedge funds to face more scrutiny after Europe squeeze
Wealth Bulletin – Regulators will this week agree broad principles for clamping down further on hedge fund managers, after the European Commission proposed more draconian constraints on their activities. At the 34th annual meeting of the International Organisation of Securities […]
EU laws seen driving hedge funds from UK
Reuters UK – Some hedge funds will leave the UK if draft new European law is not changed, said one manager present at a meeting this week with the Treasury, in which the industry expressed grave doubts about the rules. […]
Hedge fund manager Singer wants limits on leverage
Alibaba News Channel – Aggressive government action can hurt the market, but regulators should clamp down on leverage among banks and investors to prevent another credit crisis, veteran hedge fund manager Paul Singer said at a conference. Singer said the […]
Hedge fund manager Singer wants limits on leverage
Forbes – Aggressive government action can hurt the market, but regulators should clamp down on excessive borrowing by banks and investors to prevent another credit crisis, veteran hedge fund manager Paul Singer said at a conference. Singer said the current […]
