{"id":30331,"date":"2012-07-25T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30331"},"modified":"2012-07-25T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T14:04:09","slug":"german-government-wants-to-limit-hedge-funds-to-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2012\/german-government-wants-to-limit-hedge-funds-to-professionals.html","title":{"rendered":"German government wants to limit hedge funds to professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (Reuters) &#8211; German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble wants to limit direct investment in hedge funds to professionals in order to protect private investors from risky assets, via a new bill regulating alternative investment funds, his ministry said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Interests in single hedge funds will in future only be able to be held by professional investors,&#8221; reads a draft of the bill on investments, which was published on the finance ministry&#8217;s website and is being discussed with the investment industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To reinforce the protection of investors, private investors will no longer be able to invest directly in this high-risk class of investments,&#8221; says the 545-page document.<\/p>\n<p>The draft bill will be submitted to Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s cabinet for approval after the summer break and has to be enacted by July 2013 to comply with new European Union rules on riskier investments, said a finance ministry spokesman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/07\/25\/germany-hedgefunds-idINL6E8IPBRX20120725\">Read complete story here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble wants to limit direct investment in hedge funds to professionals in order to protect private investors from risky assets, via a new bill regulating alternative investment funds, his ministry said on Wednesday. &#8220;Interests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-regulation","category-offshore-funds","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30331","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=30331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30332,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30331\/revisions\/30332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}