Tag Archives: regulators
Hedge fund manager Singer wants limits on leverage
Reuters – 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 […]
US Hedge Funds Face Regulatory Tsunami, Report Says
New York Times Blogs – The biggest regulatory changes since the 1930s are bearing down on the U.S. securities and investment industry, and many firms are ill-prepared, according to a new study by research firm TowerGroup. From derivatives and hedge […]
Global hedge funds back U.S. oversight of advisers
Reuters – A global hedge fund industry group backs U.S. plans to require hedge fund advisers to register with federal regulators, a move that would align U.S. rules with those in the UK. The Alternative Investment Management Association, in remarks […]
Hedge fund bill to give SEC registration authority
Guardian Unlimited – A U.S. Senate bill to make the $1.3 trillion hedge fund industry more transparent would give federal regulators the authority to require fund managers to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the bill’s authors […]
SEC has about 150 hedge fund probes
Reuters – U.S. securities regulators have about 150 active hedge fund investigations and more than 50 probes involving credit default swaps and other derivatives, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro said on Monday. The SEC also has about two […]
SEC Charges Hennessee On Bayou Hedge Fund Miss
Post Chronicle – U.S. securities regulators charged a prominent hedge fund industry executive on Wednesday with failing to properly review collapsed hedge fund Bayou Group before recommending that their clients invest. Hennessee Group and its principal Charles Gradante, who runs […]
We’re Not A Hedge Fund
Wall Street Journal – As regulators gear up to monitor private pools of capital more, private equity firms have a message they really, really want to get across: we’re not hedge funds. PE firms hope that they can educate regulators […]
IOSCO to outline new role of regulators at conference
Jerusalem Post – While the recent G-20 summit in London provided world financial leaders with the opportunity to begin charting a path of recovery for the ailing global economy, the work to build the markets up and to ensure that […]
Hedge Fund Managers With Largest Portfolios Face EU Regulation
Bloomberg – Hedge fund managers who run the largest 15 percent of portfolios in the European Union would have to report risks, debts and trading activities to regulators under a draft proposal to tighten oversight after the financial crisis. The […]
Funds Tied to Madoff in Legal Vise
Gainesville Sun – As Bernard L. Madoff waits in jail to be sentenced, legal problems are accumulating for some of the hedge fund managers who helped him raise billions of dollars from around the world for what he now admits […]
Hedge-Fund Investors Hire Private Eyes to Avoid New Madoffs
Bloomberg – Randy Shain said he wasn’t stunned when hedge-fund managers Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh were arrested last month for allegedly misappropriating $554 million in client funds. A probe three years ago by his First Advantage Investigative Services LLC […]
A fund manager who protested too much
Globe and Mail – When Mark Bloom was arrested last week in New York for allegedly bilking clients of North Hills Fund, the case marked a new low in the hedge fund world. Not just because Mr. Bloom had allegedly […]
