{"id":30622,"date":"2012-08-13T07:25:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T11:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30622"},"modified":"2012-08-13T07:25:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T11:25:43","slug":"rules-for-investing-in-unregulated-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2012\/rules-for-investing-in-unregulated-products.html","title":{"rendered":"Rules for investing in unregulated products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Finance &#8211; This guest column is written by Ian Hamilton, the founder and chief executive of the IDS Group, a specialist administration company that administers over R60 billion in hedge funds, private equity and unit trust funds. Hamilton warned the Financial Services Board seven years ago about the dangers of the Relative Value Arbitrage Fund.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, I sounded a warning to pension fund trustees at their annual convention about unregulated alternative investment schemes, following the collapse of Bernie Madoff\u2019s US$50-billion fraud. Many of Madoff\u2019s investors were smart people who believed that what turned out to be a Ponzi scheme was a legitimate hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/business\/personal-finance\/financial-planning\/investments\/rules-for-investing-in-unregulated-products-1.1359666#.UCjfy6FlSt8\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Finance &#8211; This guest column is written by Ian Hamilton, the founder and chief executive of the IDS Group, a specialist administration company that administers over R60 billion in hedge funds, private equity and unit trust funds. Hamilton warned [&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-30622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30622","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=30622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30623,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30622\/revisions\/30623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}