{"id":10940,"date":"2009-07-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"eu-should-regulate-not-demonise-hedge-funds-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/eu-should-regulate-not-demonise-hedge-funds-sweden.html","title":{"rendered":"EU should regulate not demonise hedge funds-Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>guardian.co.uk &#8211; A minister for Sweden, which took over the EU presidency on Wednesday, said hedge funds and private equity firms needed regulation but should not be viewed as a primary cause of the global financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after a visit by the European Commission to Stockholm to mark the Nordic country&#8217;s start in the six-month presidency, Financial Markets Minister Mats Odell cautioned against &quot;overzealous&quot; regulation.<\/p>\n<div> What was needed, he told Reuters, was well-considered, balanced regulation that helped avoid systemic risk.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div> &quot;I believe there is an exaggerated view in some countries that private equity and hedge funds helped pull us into the crisis,&quot; Odell told Reuters.<\/div>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/feedarticle\/8587009\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>guardian.co.uk &#8211; A minister for Sweden, which took over the EU presidency on Wednesday, said hedge funds and private equity firms needed regulation but should not be viewed as a primary cause of the global financial crisis. Speaking after a [&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":[13726,9097,2804,4636,5775,11708,13725,13727,5398,4326,13728,13085,2836],"class_list":["post-10940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-eu-presidency","tag-european-commission","tag-financial-markets","tag-global-financial-crisis","tag-guardian","tag-hedge-funds","tag-nordic-country","tag-odell","tag-private-equity-firms","tag-reuters","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-systemic-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940","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=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}