{"id":26616,"date":"2011-12-28T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=26616"},"modified":"2011-12-28T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:22:41","slug":"sec-doubles-down-on-its-efforts-to-find-hedge-fund-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2011\/sec-doubles-down-on-its-efforts-to-find-hedge-fund-fraud.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC Doubles Down On Its Efforts To Find Hedge Fund Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huffington Post &#8211; Memo to hedge fund managers: It&#8217;s a bad time to try to overachieve. The Securities and Exchange Commission is cracking down on hedge fund fraud, and the first places they&#8217;re looking are the firms that\u00a0seem to be doing a little too well.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in\u00a0<em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, the SEC has devised a method of sorting data that highlights hedge funds whose balance sheets never seem to suffer, no matter how rocky the market gets. The\u00a0<em>WSJ<\/em>\u00a0notes that the agency is trying to spot the next Bernie Madoff before he or she can defraud investors of billions of dollars, the way Madoff did with his Ponzi scheme. Already, the\u00a0<em>WSJ<\/em>\u00a0says, the SEC has initiated\u00a0four civil-fraud lawsuits\u00a0based on their data review system.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/12\/27\/sec-hedge-fund-fraud_n_1171918.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huffington Post &#8211; Memo to hedge fund managers: It&#8217;s a bad time to try to overachieve. The Securities and Exchange Commission is cracking down on hedge fund fraud, and the first places they&#8217;re looking are the firms that\u00a0seem to be [&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-26616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616","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=26616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26627,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616\/revisions\/26627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}