{"id":12550,"date":"2009-10-16T07:24:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T11:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12550"},"modified":"2009-10-16T07:24:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T11:24:50","slug":"hedge-fund-leaders-gain-clout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2009\/hedge-fund-leaders-gain-clout.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund leaders gain clout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston.com &#8211; Hedge fund managers &#8211; a secretive, lightly regulated group portrayed by some as villains in last year\u2019s financial meltdown &#8211; appear to have a new degree of clout on Capitol Hill in shaping legislation that will determine how they will be regulated.<\/p>\n<p>To gain that clout, industry leaders are using a congressman-turned-lobbyist, a major increase in campaign donations, and a strategy that relies heavily on advancing their own reform ideas, making them active players in the legislative process and perhaps staving off more rigorous regulation measures.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2009\/10\/16\/hedge_fund_leaders_gain_clout\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston.com &#8211; Hedge fund managers &#8211; a secretive, lightly regulated group portrayed by some as villains in last year\u2019s financial meltdown &#8211; appear to have a new degree of clout on Capitol Hill in shaping legislation that will determine how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2222,13347,15966],"class_list":["post-12550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hedge-fund-managers","tag-industry-leaders","tag-lobbyist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550","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=12550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12551,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550\/revisions\/12551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}