{"id":9130,"date":"2008-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"house-panel-discusses-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/house-panel-discusses-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"House panel discusses hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Money Times &#8211; A U.S. House committee Thursday reviewed hedge funds<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoneytimes.com\/news\/20081114\/house_panel_discusses_hedge_funds-id-1041385.html#\" class=\"kLink\" target=\"undefined\"><\/a>, which the panel&#8217;s chair called &quot;virtually unregulated.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Because they aren&#8217;t required to report on their holdings, leverage or strategies, &quot;hedge funds are virtually unregulated,&quot; said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. &quot;Regulators aren&#8217;t even certain how many hedge funds exist or how much money they control.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>That segment of the financial industry is &quot;growing rapidly,&quot; Waxman said, adding he was concerned that hedge funds, as other financial sectors, could collapse.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.themoneytimes.com\/news\/20081114\/house_panel_discusses_hedge_funds-id-1041385.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Money Times &#8211; A U.S. House committee Thursday reviewed hedge funds, which the panel&#8217;s chair called &quot;virtually unregulated.&quot; Because they aren&#8217;t required to report on their holdings, leverage or strategies, &quot;hedge funds are virtually unregulated,&quot; said Rep. Henry Waxman, [&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":[3735,3732,2796,3733,44,3690,2805,45,923,3734],"class_list":["post-9130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-conn","tag-currents","tag-dealer-operations","tag-house-committee-on-oversight-and-government-reform","tag-invoices","tag-legacy","tag-marketing-collateral","tag-regulators","tag-squeeze","tag-tritton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130","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=9130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}