{"id":3821,"date":"2006-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-asset-bonanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2006\/hedge-fund-asset-bonanza.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Asset Bonanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a little-noticed bill that could make it a lot easier for hedge funds to attract money from pension plans. The consequences could be meaningful, as  pensions are by far the largest investors in hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;It&#8217;s a significant proposal. It would make it easier for hedge funds to raise substantial amounts of capital from pensions,&#8221; says William A. Schmidt, a partner at law firm Kirkpatrick &amp;  Lockhart Nicholson Graham. &#8220;It is perceived as very good news by the hedge fund industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Although only a few hedge fund institutions lobbied for the bill, most are very supportive of it, another lawyer says.<\/p>\n<p>  The bill would also apply to funds of funds.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/_googlen\/markets\/hedgefunds\/10260553.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN&amp;cm_cat=FREE&amp;cm_ite=NA\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a little-noticed bill that could make it a lot easier for hedge funds to attract money from pension plans. The consequences could be meaningful, as pensions are by far the largest investors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}