{"id":6753,"date":"2007-11-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"group-suggests-hedge-fund-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2007\/group-suggests-hedge-fund-improvements.html","title":{"rendered":"Group suggests hedge fund improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Reading Eagle &#8211; <span>A leading hedge fund trade group unveiled new recommendations Monday aimed at improving practices in the lightly regulated, $2 trillion hedge fund industry.<\/p>\n<p>  The report issued by the Managed Funds Association updates and expands on recommendations issued in 2005 and follows calls from a White House financial group to boost hedge fund practices.<\/p>\n<p>  \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThis is the industry\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s effort to get ahead of the curve,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d said Eric Vincent, chairman of the Washington-based Managed Funds Association.<\/p>\n<p>  Hedge funds, which are investment pools open to wealthy individuals and institutional investors, have grown dramatically yet operate with little oversight or public disclosure, prompting calls for  tighter federal regulation. A U.S. presidential working group has taken a more hands-off approach, calling for market discipline and improved industry practices.<\/span><a href=  \"http:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/article.aspx?id=67051\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/article.aspx?id=67051\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/article.aspx?id=67051\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Eagle &#8211; A leading hedge fund trade group unveiled new recommendations Monday aimed at improving practices in the lightly regulated, $2 trillion hedge fund industry. The report issued by the Managed Funds Association updates and expands on recommendations issued [&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-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","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=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}