{"id":4598,"date":"2006-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-transparency-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2006\/hedge-fund-transparency-survey.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Transparency Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) &#8211; Northern Trust, a group of institutional investors, held a survey regarding hedge fund trancparency. Respondents included single strategy hedge fund managers, fundof hedge funds managers and institutional investors. Collectively, those surveyed either invest or manage in excess of <span class=\"caps\">E 106<\/span> billion in hedge fund assets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"writeboardbody\">\n<p>    The survey, published in a white paper is believed to be the first European study to look at the effects of the changing investor profile. The paper is titled The \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cForced\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Institutionalisation of    the Hedge Fund Industry, as new investors in hedge funds will bring additional burdens, and require more standardisation from those managing the assets.  <\/p>\n<p>    In an interview with Global Investor magazine, Marc Russell-Jones, the vice president of global fund services at Northern Trust, said; \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThe transparency debate is now evolving to include more    focus on the operational, and not just the portfolio level, aspects of a hedge fund manager\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s business.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d  <\/p>\n<p>    46% of all those surveyed said that they would welcome an increase in regulatory supervision. 76% of firms interviewed who target the institutional market said they have already or plan to begin,    a higher level of standardisation. Institutional investors, their advisers and fund of hedge funds managers targeting the institutional market, were most in favour of more regulation. By    contrast, 32% of all those surveyed said they were against further regulation and standardisation, this group was predominantly single strategy hedge fund managers and fund of funds serving high    net worth investors.  <\/p>\n<p>    Alex Akesson<br \/>    Contributing Writer<br \/>    HedgeCo.Net<br \/>    Email: Editor@hedgeco.net  <\/p>\n<p>    HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on www.hedgeco.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge    Funds!  <\/p>\n<p>    <strong>Be sure to check out our sister sites. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\">www.hedgefundtools.com,<\/a><\/strong>    and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\"><strong>www.hedgefundemployment.com.<\/strong><\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) &#8211; Northern Trust, a group of institutional investors, held a survey regarding hedge fund trancparency. Respondents included single strategy hedge fund managers, fundof hedge funds managers and institutional investors. Collectively, those surveyed either invest or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598","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=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}