{"id":3730,"date":"2005-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"uk-watchdog-fears-hedge-fund-internet-loophole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2005\/uk-watchdog-fears-hedge-fund-internet-loophole.html","title":{"rendered":"UK watchdog fears hedge fund internet loophole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Britain&#8217;s financial watchdog is concerned that retail investors can, via the Internet, access hedge funds set up in Germany and so by-pass UK controls on the high-risk products, its chiefexecutive said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>  Hedge funds seek high returns through complex and risky investments and for that reason Britain&#8217;s Financial Services Authority (FSA) has tried to limit retail consumer access to them.<\/p>\n<p>  But in Germany regulators have decided to open up hedge funds to retail investors. Such funds can escape UK regulatory oversight by marketing themselves across the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>  Funds packaging themselves in Germany deliberately to exploit such a loophole would make a worst-case scenario, said John Tiner, the FSA&#8217;s Chief Executive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c.moreover.com\/click\/here.pl?b438517141&amp;r=MSNnews\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Britain&#8217;s financial watchdog is concerned that retail investors can, via the Internet, access hedge funds set up in Germany and so by-pass UK controls on the high-risk products, its chiefexecutive said on Wednesday. Hedge funds seek high returns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730","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=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}