{"id":10459,"date":"2009-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"call-for-hedge-funds-to-pay-short-selling-research-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/call-for-hedge-funds-to-pay-short-selling-research-charge.html","title":{"rendered":"Call for hedge funds to pay short selling research charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>London Stock Exchange &#8211; Hedge funds that short stocks as part of their investment strategy should be forced to pay a levy to support research into the impact of the tactic on the markets, according to a new manifesto for the &quot;fundamental reform&quot; of corporate governance. <\/p>\n<p>The document, published by corporate oversight and social responsibility consultancy PIRC, calls for the charge to be introduced alongside enhanced disclosure of listed companies&#8217; pay and benefits, as well as binding shareholder votes on audit committee reports and remuneration policies. <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.londonstockexchange.com\/en-gb\/pricesnews\/investnews\/article.htm%3FWBCMODE%3Dpresentationu%3FArticleID%3D19140262\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonstockexchange.com\/en-gb\/pricesnews\/investnews\/Article.htm?ArticleID=19140262\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.londonstockexchange.com\/en-gb\/pricesnews\/investnews\/article.htm%3FWBCMODE%3Dpresentationu%3FArticleID%3D19140262\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Stock Exchange &#8211; Hedge funds that short stocks as part of their investment strategy should be forced to pay a levy to support research into the impact of the tactic on the markets, according to a new manifesto for [&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":[10936,10935,10215,10932,10933,4385,3489,10934,3818,10938,46,10931,992,10937,353,8768],"class_list":["post-10459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-audit-committee","tag-committee-reports","tag-corporate-governance","tag-enhanced-disclosure","tag-fundamental-reform","tag-investment-strategy","tag-levy","tag-listed-companies","tag-london-stock-exchange","tag-manifesto","tag-oversight","tag-remuneration-policies","tag-shareholder-votes","tag-social-responsibility","tag-stocks","tag-tactic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}