{"id":9043,"date":"2008-11-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"what-can-hedge-funds-expect-from-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/what-can-hedge-funds-expect-from-president-obama.html","title":{"rendered":"What Can Hedge Funds Expect from President Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Blogs &#8211; After pouring money into Barack Obama&rsquo;s campaign, what can hedge funds and their  executives expect from the new president?<\/p>\n<p>If history is any exmaple, says FINAlternatives, they shouldn&rsquo;t expect a cuddly relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama didn&rsquo;t appear sympathetic to the industry on the campaign trail, the publication noted, calling John McCain the candidate of &ldquo;Joe the Hedge Fund Manager,&rdquo; a riff on McCain&rsquo;s pledge to serve the &ldquo;Joe the Plumbers&rdquo; of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>And during his time in the Senate, FINAlternatives noted, Mr. Obama sponsored a bill that would have required hedge fund managers to set up anti-money laundering programs supervised by the Treasury Department. (The Treasury abandoned a similar proposal last week).<\/p>\n<p>The president-elect has also backed tax proposals that increase the burden on hedge funds and private equity shops, the publication said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/05\/what-can-hedge-funds-expect-from-president-obama\/\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Blogs &#8211; After pouring money into Barack Obama&rsquo;s campaign, what can hedge funds and their executives expect from the new president? If history is any exmaple, says FINAlternatives, they shouldn&rsquo;t expect a cuddly relationship. Mr. Obama didn&rsquo;t [&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":[3565,769,67,930,720,334,197,130,1647,1961,2148,3566,771,2341],"class_list":["post-9043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-arizona-senator-john-mccain","tag-ashe","tag-chief-executive","tag-federal-election-commission","tag-fund-managers","tag-gores-group","tag-housing-market","tag-management-business","tag-opponents","tag-presidential-contender","tag-redneck","tag-stimulus-plan","tag-theo","tag-treasury-secretary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043","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=9043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}