{"id":22738,"date":"2011-05-27T06:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T10:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=22738"},"modified":"2011-05-27T06:30:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T10:30:58","slug":"eu-watchdog-eyes-hedge-funds-debt-shorting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2011\/eu-watchdog-eyes-hedge-funds-debt-shorting.html","title":{"rendered":"EU watchdog eyes hedge funds, debt shorting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Investors need more information on hedge fund risks, while planned European Union curbs on shorting sovereign debt could undermine regulatory credibility, the EU&#8217;s new securities watchdog said on Thursday. Steven Maijoor, chairman of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), said investors need information to better assess the risk profile of a hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be important to achieve a balance between increasing investor protection while avoiding imposing undue costs on fund managers,&#8221; Maijoor told the annual International Capital Market Association conference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/05\/26\/eu-esma-idUSLDE74P1HS20110526\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Investors need more information on hedge fund risks, while planned European Union curbs on shorting sovereign debt could undermine regulatory credibility, the EU&#8217;s new securities watchdog said on Thursday. Steven Maijoor, chairman of the European Securities and Markets [&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-22738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22738","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=22738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22739,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22738\/revisions\/22739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}