{"id":5629,"date":"2007-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"mom-and-pop-investors-say-hands-off-our-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2007\/mom-and-pop-investors-say-hands-off-our-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Mom-and-pop investors say hands-off our hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times &#8211; It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s just not the kind of the thing you hear every day. Individual investors are protesting against the SEC\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s <a title=\"External link to PDF\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/rules\/proposed\/2006\/33-8766.pdf\">proposal<\/a> to raise the investment threshold for anyone who wants to invest in hedge funds in the United States, <a title=\"External to Down Jones story via Chicago Tribune\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/yourmoney\/chi-0702010152feb01,0,4981850.story?coll=chi-business-hed\">reports<\/a> Neal Lipschutz of DowJones.<\/p>\n<p>  In December, the SEC proposed limiting participation in hedge funds to people with at least $2.5m&nbsp;in financial investments, up from the current minimum of $1m&nbsp;in net worth, a figure that  includes the value of a home. But people have reacted angrily to the proposal, accusing the agency of \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201csins ranging from paternalism to outright discrimination against the less-than-fabulously  wealthy,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=  \"http:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/0-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/2262\/mom-and-pop-investors-say-hands-off-our-hedge-funds\/&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=R1nDRdnqMoWKpAK-jsy0Aw\">  <strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times &#8211; It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s just not the kind of the thing you hear every day. Individual investors are protesting against the SEC\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s proposal to raise the investment threshold for anyone who wants to invest in hedge funds in the United [&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-5629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629","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=5629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}