{"id":5810,"date":"2007-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hung-up-on-hedge-funds-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2007\/hung-up-on-hedge-funds-capitol-hill.html","title":{"rendered":"Hung Up on Hedge Funds &#038; Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After sitting down with Paul Atkins, a Republican commissioner at the SEC, it became clear that many in Washington D.C. are simply hung up on hedge fund regulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">  Atkins, who served the SEC from 1990-94 and was re-appointed in 2002, has a practical view of regulation: The SEC should focus on protecting the most investors. And that would mean mutual fund  investors. Atkins told me, &#8220;There are 90 million investors in mutual funds and I think that ought to be the SEC&#8217;s prime worry &#8230; there might be at the most 200,000 people invested in hedge funds  and those are wealthy individuals &#8212; people who have the means to hire folks who can help them monitor their investments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/17577847\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After sitting down with Paul Atkins, a Republican commissioner at the SEC, it became clear that many in Washington D.C. are simply hung up on hedge fund regulation. Atkins, who served the SEC from 1990-94 and was re-appointed in 2002, [&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-5810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810","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=5810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}