{"id":10839,"date":"2009-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-dangerous-opponent-rasmussen-pushes-eu-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/hedge-funds-dangerous-opponent-rasmussen-pushes-eu-crackdown.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds\u2019 \u2018Dangerous Opponent\u2019 Rasmussen Pushes EU Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Buyout firms and hedge funds, &ldquo;Read my lips: You&rsquo;re going to have regulation.&rdquo;             <\/p>\n<p>So says Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, the Socialist Party president who conducted a two-year campaign for the first European Union regulations governing so-called alternative investors. Hedge funds and private-equity firms, which manage 2 trillion euros ($2.8 trillion) in the region, are in line for some of the world&rsquo;s strictest rules, and potentially billions of dollars of compliance costs, under an EU measure proposed in April.     <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601085&#038;sid=aPJUmvTgkQtg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Buyout firms and hedge funds, &ldquo;Read my lips: You&rsquo;re going to have regulation.&rdquo; So says Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, the Socialist Party president who conducted a two-year campaign for the first European Union regulations governing so-called alternative investors. Hedge [&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":[4807,11081,3221,4504,13174,13173,5398,13172,236],"class_list":["post-10839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-billions-of-dollars","tag-compliance-costs","tag-european-union","tag-investors","tag-lips","tag-party-president","tag-private-equity-firms","tag-socialist-party","tag-trillion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839","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=10839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}