{"id":5833,"date":"2007-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"compatibility-of-pension-funds-hedge-funds-questioned-at-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2007\/compatibility-of-pension-funds-hedge-funds-questioned-at-hearing.html","title":{"rendered":"Compatibility of pension funds, hedge funds questioned at hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington &#8211;&nbsp; The possibility of limiting pension fund involvement in hedge funds was raised last week by legislators and hedge fund industry representatives at a hearing on Capitol Hill on howmuch risk hedge funds pose for financial markets.<\/p>\n<p>  Limitation on who gets in [to hedge funds] needs to be reviewed, whether it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s the individual\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s net worth standard, whether it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s pension fund management capability\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d or limits on funds of funds, said  Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., summing up comments made at the hearing held by the House Financial Services Committee.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/0-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.investmentnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article%3FAID%3D\/20070319\/FREE\/70319028\/1024\/COMPLIANCE&amp;cid=1114444764&amp;ei=Jof-RbLOJbyWsgGV9LCnCw\">ReadComplete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington &#8211;&nbsp; The possibility of limiting pension fund involvement in hedge funds was raised last week by legislators and hedge fund industry representatives at a hearing on Capitol Hill on howmuch risk hedge funds pose for financial markets. Limitation on [&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-5833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833","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=5833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}