{"id":9557,"date":"2009-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-bet-on-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/hedge-funds-bet-on-regulations.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds bet on regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times &#8211; Hedge-fund managers say Bernard L. Madoff may succeed where Christopher Cox failed: forcing regulation of their $1.5 trillion industry. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Madoff&#8217;s purported bilking of investors by up to $50 billion begins to uncover a part of the investment industry that has skirted government scrutiny. Although the 70-year-old was registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency Mr. Cox heads, fund executives who fed him customers&#8217; money weren&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is an Enron moment for hedge funds,&quot; said Peter Rup, chief investment officer at New York-based hedge fund Orion Capital Management LLC, with $400 million in assets under management. &quot;Regulation would be welcome, primarily from a trust standpoint.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2008\/dec\/29\/hedge-funds-bet-on-regulations\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times &#8211; Hedge-fund managers say Bernard L. Madoff may succeed where Christopher Cox failed: forcing regulation of their $1.5 trillion industry. Mr. Madoff&#8217;s purported bilking of investors by up to $50 billion begins to uncover a part of [&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":[1007,3314,1742,22,5176,4711,5175,2222,3231,4504,4249,2812,4706,35,21,4708,236,5177],"class_list":["post-9557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-assets-under-management","tag-capital-management-llc","tag-chief-investment-officer","tag-christopher-cox","tag-customers-money","tag-enron","tag-government-scrutiny","tag-hedge-fund-managers","tag-investment-industry","tag-investors","tag-madoff","tag-mr-cox","tag-rup","tag-securities-and-exchange","tag-securities-and-exchange-commission","tag-standpoint","tag-trillion","tag-washington-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557","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=9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}