{"id":6819,"date":"2007-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"european-socialists-seek-tougher-regulation-for-equity-and-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2007\/european-socialists-seek-tougher-regulation-for-equity-and-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"European Socialists seek tougher regulation for equity and hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Herald Tribune &#8211; European Socialists on Thursday urged stronger international regulation of equity and hedge funds, predicting assets of such funds will triple in the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>  A lack of transparency could affect the broader economy, delegates warned in a resolution adopted at a two-day council of the Party of European Socialists.<\/p>\n<p>  Assets in hedge and private equity funds stand at US$3 trillion today and are expected to reach US$10 trillion by the end of 2010, it said.<\/p>\n<p>  The resolution said the rules of disclosure and transparency should apply to hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;It is about re-establishing respect among the financial markets for the needs of the real economy,&#8221; said Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister who heads the Party of European  Socialists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/11\/22\/business\/EU-FIN-Bulgaria-EU-Socialists.php\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Herald Tribune &#8211; European Socialists on Thursday urged stronger international regulation of equity and hedge funds, predicting assets of such funds will triple in the next three years. A lack of transparency could affect the broader economy, delegates warned [&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-6819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819","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=6819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}