{"id":18783,"date":"2010-11-08T07:25:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T11:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=18783"},"modified":"2010-11-08T07:25:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T11:25:40","slug":"background-note-on-the-alternative-investment-fund-managers-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2010\/background-note-on-the-alternative-investment-fund-managers-directive.html","title":{"rendered":"Background note on the alternative investment fund managers directive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European\u00a0Parliament\u00a0&#8211; Over a year in the making, the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive &#8211; widely known as the &#8220;hedge funds&#8221; directive &#8211; is reaching the final stages of approval. This note answers some basic questions about what is to be regulated and why.<\/p>\n<p>It also explains some more technical issues to do with the &#8220;passport&#8221; system for marketing funds across the EU. Finally, it also compares the EU institutions&#8217; starting positions, and shows the final outcomes, on the most controversial issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/en\/pressroom\/content\/20101105BKG92028\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European\u00a0Parliament\u00a0&#8211; Over a year in the making, the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive &#8211; widely known as the &#8220;hedge funds&#8221; directive &#8211; is reaching the final stages of approval. This note answers some basic questions about what is to [&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-18783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783","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=18783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18784,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783\/revisions\/18784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}