Bloomberg – South Africa’s treasury and the Financial Services Board have proposed hedge fund regulations aimed at protecting investors and promoting financial stability.
So-called restricted hedge funds, which are limited to qualified investors, and retail hedge funds “will be subject to some common regulatory standards, like registering and reporting, to ensure transparency and the effective monitoring of any systemic risk build-up,” the Pretoria-based regulators said in an e-mailed statement today. “To manage risks, funds will need to have a risk-management program which sets out the types of derivatives the fund will use, the risks associated with the derivatives and how those will be managed.”
