{"id":5691,"date":"2007-02-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"economic-powers-to-study-growing-influence-of-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2007\/economic-powers-to-study-growing-influence-of-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Economic Powers to Study Growing Influence of Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  ESSEN, Germany, Feb. 10 \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Finance ministers from the world\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s leading economies put the $1.4 trillion hedge fund industry firmly on the international policy agenda on Saturday, saying they would  scrutinize the sector closely with an eye toward encouraging more self-regulation.<\/p>\n<p>  Representatives from the <a title=\"More articles about Group of Seven\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/g\/group_of_seven\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Group of  7<\/a> nations, who met in the industrial center of the host country, Germany, issued a statement saying that the practices of hedge funds, which have drawn growing concern from financial policy  makers over the last few years, have \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cbecome more complex and challenging\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d in light of the industry\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s prominence and volatility.<\/p>\n<p>  \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cGiven the strong growth of the hedge fund industry and the instruments they trade, we need to be vigilant,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d the ministers said in their statement. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cWe therefore agreed to further pursue the  issue.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/11\/business\/11ministers.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESSEN, Germany, Feb. 10 \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Finance ministers from the world\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s leading economies put the $1.4 trillion hedge fund industry firmly on the international policy agenda on Saturday, saying they would scrutinize the sector closely with an eye toward encouraging more [&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-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691","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=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}