{"id":5763,"date":"2007-03-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"markets-hedge-funds-get-the-lighter-touch-chase-cooper-regulatory-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2007\/markets-hedge-funds-get-the-lighter-touch-chase-cooper-regulatory-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Markets-Hedge funds get the lighter touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President&#8217;s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG) has released a set of <span class=\"bodytext\">principles and guidelines<\/span> for US regulators in their handling of hedge funds and privateequity organisations. These have moved away from the US norm of tight, formal regulations and are adopting the European-influenced light touch of principles-based regulation.<\/p>\n<p>  The PWG was created in 1988 by President Reagan, hence its name, to give recommendations for legislative solutions to enhance \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cthe integrity, efficiency, orderliness, and competitiveness of our  Nation&#8217;s financial markets and maintaining investor confidence&#8221; and comprises the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, and the Chairmen of the SEC, the Federal Reserve and the Commodity  Futures Trading Commission.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/4-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.chasecooper.com\/News-Regulatory_Markets-2007-03-05.php&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=0h_sRaTRN7WisgHNxoXlBQ\">ReadComplete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President&#8217;s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG) has released a set of principles and guidelines for US regulators in their handling of hedge funds and privateequity organisations. These have moved away from the US norm of tight, formal regulations [&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-5763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763","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=5763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}