{"id":36820,"date":"2013-07-18T10:56:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T14:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=36820"},"modified":"2013-07-18T10:56:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T14:56:51","slug":"hedge-funds-have-first-amendment-rights-too-says-hoenig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2013\/hedge-funds-have-first-amendment-rights-too-says-hoenig.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Have First Amendment Rights Too! Says Hoenig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo &#8211; Last week the SEC lifted an 80 year-old ban forbidding hedge funds from advertising to the general public. Under the terms of the new rule, funds will still only be allowed to accept money from so-called qualified investors defined as families with greater than $1 million net worth or annual income greater than $200,000 per year for the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Hoenig, founding member of the hedge fund\u00a0Capitalist Pig, says Let Freedom Ring. &#8220;While the pornographer, the cigarette manufacturer, the firearms manufacturer have been able to exercise their free speech rights and run all the ads they want for 80 years, it&#8217;s been illegal for hedge funds to run an ad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/blogs\/breakout\/hedge-funds-first-amendment-rights-too-hoenig-145433964.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo &#8211; Last week the SEC lifted an 80 year-old ban forbidding hedge funds from advertising to the general public. Under the terms of the new rule, funds will still only be allowed to accept money from so-called qualified investors [&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-36820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820","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=36820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36821,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820\/revisions\/36821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}