{"id":10739,"date":"2009-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-proposal-dies-in-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/hedge-fund-proposal-dies-in-legislature.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund proposal dies in legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stamford Advocate &#8211; Although it had bipartisan support, a bill requiring hedge funds operating in Connecticut to disclose conflicts of interest to investors died in the House of Representatives Wednesday, the final day of the 2009 legislative session. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It &#8216;blew up&#8217; like Amaranth, like Bayou,&quot; said state Rep. Ryan Barry, D-Manchester, who co-sponsored the proposal with Sen. Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, co-sponsored the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Barry was referring to the high-profile collapses of the Stamford-based Bayou Group LLC in 2005 and Greenwich-based Amaranth Advisors LLC in 2006, which inspired him and Duff, as Banks Committee chairmen, to pursue hedge fund regulations.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.stamfordadvocate.com\/localnews\/ci_12513777\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stamford Advocate &#8211; Although it had bipartisan support, a bill requiring hedge funds operating in Connecticut to disclose conflicts of interest to investors died in the House of Representatives Wednesday, the final day of the 2009 legislative session. &quot;It &#8216;blew [&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":[12581,8818,12585,12584,12582,9119,1551,8136,1752,11148,11708,9184,4186,1053,12587,12257,6706,12583,8120,12586],"class_list":["post-10739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-amaranth-advisors-llc","tag-banks-committee","tag-bipartisan-support","tag-bob-duff","tag-committee-chairmen","tag-conflicts-of-interest","tag-connecticut","tag-greenwich","tag-group-llc","tag-hedge-fund","tag-hedge-funds","tag-high-profile","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-legislation","tag-legislative-session","tag-norwalk","tag-proposal","tag-ryan-barry","tag-stamford-advocate","tag-state-rep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739","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=10739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}