{"id":11123,"date":"2009-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"david-prosser-at-last-some-good-news-for-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/david-prosser-at-last-some-good-news-for-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"David Prosser: At last, some good news for hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-null\">The Independent &#8211; Grimly aware that a European Commission crackdown on regulation of hedge funds and    private equity spells disaster for the EU&#8217;s predominantly London-based industry,    Treasury ministers have been desperately lobbying their counterparts in    Brussels for months, but their pleas have fallen on deaf ears.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-null\"> Now, however, the Americans have woken up to the fact that many of their hedge    funds would find it impossible to do business in the EU under proposals for    regulatory reform. In recent weeks, US Treasury officials have thus been    touring the EU, letting their displeasure be known. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-null\"> It appears that the Americans&#8217; involvement is already paying dividends.    Sweden, which holds the EU presidency, was quietly letting it be known    yesterday that it will ensure some sort of compromise is brokered. The    Alternative Investment Management Association, which represents the sector&#8217;s    interests, now thinks disaster may be averted.  <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/business\/comment\/david-prosser-at-last-some-good-news-for-hedge-funds-1763368.html?FORM=ZZNR\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent &#8211; Grimly aware that a European Commission crackdown on regulation of hedge funds and private equity spells disaster for the EU&#8217;s predominantly London-based industry, Treasury ministers have been desperately lobbying their counterparts in Brussels for months, but their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[457,2609,14654,6795,7328,14652,5526,14653,1849,13726,9097,11708,4756,3364,3531,9255,13085,14651,8237],"class_list":["post-11123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-equity","category-syndicated","tag-alternative-investment-management-association","tag-brussels","tag-compromise","tag-counterparts","tag-crackdown","tag-deaf-ears","tag-disaster","tag-displeasure","tag-dividends","tag-eu-presidency","tag-european-commission","tag-hedge-funds","tag-investment-management-association","tag-london","tag-proposals","tag-regulatory-reform","tag-sweden","tag-treasury-ministers","tag-treasury-officials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123","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=11123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}