{"id":16096,"date":"2010-06-08T05:37:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T09:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16096"},"modified":"2010-06-08T05:37:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T09:37:37","slug":"hedge-fund-group-spent-1-4-million-lobbying-in-1q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/hedge-fund-group-spent-1-4-million-lobbying-in-1q.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund group spent $1.4 million lobbying in 1Q"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; A trade group representing hedge funds spent nearly $1.4 million in  the first quarter lobbying federal officials on proposed financial  regulations, including stricter oversight of derivatives trading.<\/p>\n<p>The $1.37 million that the Managed Funds Association spent on  lobbying was up from the $790,000 that the organization spent in the  same quarter a year ago. It also tops the nearly $1.1 million spent in  last year&#8217;s fourth quarter by the lobbying organization for hedge funds,  which cater to institutional investors and wealthy individuals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D9G6MHSO2.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; A trade group representing hedge funds spent nearly $1.4 million in the first quarter lobbying federal officials on proposed financial regulations, including stricter oversight of derivatives trading. The $1.37 million that the Managed Funds Association spent on lobbying [&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":[],"class_list":["post-16096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096","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=16096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16098,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096\/revisions\/16098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}