{"id":12371,"date":"2009-10-07T06:24:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T10:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12371"},"modified":"2009-10-07T06:28:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T10:28:34","slug":"uk-church-is-unlikely-defender-of-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2009\/uk-church-is-unlikely-defender-of-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Church Is Unlikely Defender of Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; The Church of England has emerged as an unlikely defender of the hedge-fund industry against the prospect of new regulations from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Only last year, the Archbishop of York was calling hedge funds &#8220;bank robbers&#8221; for profiting from the fall in bank stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a group of six of the U.K.&#8217;s largest charitable foundations, including the Church of England, has told a House of Lords committee that a proposed EU directive would &#8220;significantly restrict our ability to generate funds to pursue our charitable missions and thus reduce our impact for public good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125487076257769147.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/search\/hedge+funds\/SIG=11km2o4gd\/*http%3A\/\/www.efinancialnews.com\/content\/1055350261\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; The Church of England has emerged as an unlikely defender of the hedge-fund industry against the prospect of new regulations from the European Union. Only last year, the Archbishop of York was calling hedge funds &#8220;bank robbers&#8221; for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2887,15925,3221,11148,11708],"class_list":["post-12371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bank-stocks","tag-charitable-missions","tag-european-union","tag-hedge-fund","tag-hedge-funds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12374,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371\/revisions\/12374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}