{"id":17862,"date":"2010-09-23T12:21:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T16:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=17862"},"modified":"2010-09-23T12:21:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T16:21:35","slug":"sec-sets-its-sights-on-vision-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2010\/sec-sets-its-sights-on-vision-capital.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC sets its sights on Vision Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Vision Capital Advisors, a $600 million hedge fund led by two visually impaired managers, is under investigation by U.S. securities regulators, according to a confidential document reviewed by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued subpoenas in the summer to several investment firms that have done business with New York-based Vision Capital, said people familiar with the inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>The hedge fund invests mainly in private placements by small cash-strapped public companies.<\/p>\n<p>The subpoenas sent out by the SEC&#8217;s New York office seek emails, transaction documents and other communications between Vision Capital and the investment firms going back to early 2005 &#8212; the hedge fund&#8217;s first year in business. Reuters reviewed a copy of one of the subpoenas.<\/p>\n<p>SEC spokesman John Nester declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE68L4KO20100922\">Click here to read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Vision Capital Advisors, a $600 million hedge fund led by two visually impaired managers, is under investigation by U.S. securities regulators, according to a confidential document reviewed by Reuters. In a wide-ranging investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17862","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=17862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17864,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17862\/revisions\/17864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}