{"id":9733,"date":"2009-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"has-the-moment-for-greater-uk-hedge-fund-regulation-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/has-the-moment-for-greater-uk-hedge-fund-regulation-passed.html","title":{"rendered":"Has the moment for greater UK hedge fund regulation passed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Tuesday&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssInvestmentServices\/idUSLN43465920090126\">grilling of UK&nbsp;hedge fund executives <\/a>is likely to create plenty of noise but produce little in the way of new rules.<\/p>\n<p>While media-shy TCI founder Chris Hohn and others will face tough&nbsp;questions from the Treasury Select Committee on financial stability, short-selling and other issues, it nevertheless seems that the pro-legislation lobby&rsquo;s position may be weaker than it has been in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, many hedge funds simply do not have the financial clout &mdash; and&nbsp;therefore carry the associated risks seen&nbsp;by some politicians &mdash; that they once did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/hedgehub\/2009\/01\/26\/has-the-moment-for-greater-uk-hedge-fund-regulation-passed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Tuesday&rsquo;s grilling of UK&nbsp;hedge fund executives is likely to create plenty of noise but produce little in the way of new rules. While media-shy TCI founder Chris Hohn and others will face tough&nbsp;questions from the Treasury Select Committee [&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":[1762,895,2245,6503,1053,5289,3169,4326,5427,6279],"class_list":["post-9733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-chris-hohn","tag-clout","tag-financial-stability","tag-founder-chris","tag-legislation","tag-mdash","tag-politicians","tag-reuters","tag-tci","tag-treasury-select-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733","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=9733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}