{"id":6806,"date":"2007-11-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"watchdogs-issue-transparency-guide-for-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2007\/watchdogs-issue-transparency-guide-for-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Watchdogs issue transparency guide for hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS (Reuters) &#8211; Methods used to determine the worth of a hedge fund&#8217;s portfolio should be independently reviewed and transparent to investors, global market watchdogs said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>  Hedge funds, blamed by critics for causing wild swings in share markets, have come under political pressure in the past year to be more transparent in the way they operate.<\/p>\n<p>  The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) represents more than 100 national market regulators, from the United States to Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>  IOSCO members, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Britain&#8217;s Financial Services Authority &#8212; which oversee the bulk of the world&#8217;s hedge fund managers &#8212; published on Monday  agreed guidelines for their day-to-day supervisory operations.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;The valuation issues relating to investment portfolios and their importance, particularly in current market conditions, to existing and potential investors are the same across a wide range of  jurisdictions,&#8221; Michel Prada, chairman of IOSCO&#8217;s technical committee, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/187104504\"><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/187104504\/idUKNOA93978120071119\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS (Reuters) &#8211; Methods used to determine the worth of a hedge fund&#8217;s portfolio should be independently reviewed and transparent to investors, global market watchdogs said on Monday. Hedge funds, blamed by critics for causing wild swings in share markets, [&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-6806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806","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=6806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}