{"id":9961,"date":"2009-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-group-proposes-rules-to-avert-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/hedge-fund-group-proposes-rules-to-avert-intervention.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Group Proposes Rules to Avert Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; A group of hedge funds offered to increase disclosure to head off demands from politicians on at least two continents for more transparency. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We know which way the wind is blowing,&rdquo; said Andrew Baker, chief executive of London-based Alternative Investment Management Association, the industry&rsquo;s largest lobby group. &ldquo;We see a lot of this as inevitable and we&rsquo;d like to put ourselves in a position to say, &lsquo;You don&rsquo;t have to drag this out of us.&rsquo;&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>European leaders meeting in Berlin on Feb. 22 said they want to subject the $1.4 trillion industry to more regulation because hedge funds &ldquo;may present a systemic risk&rdquo; to world economies, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&#038;sid=a2z4_.ZNcYgM\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; A group of hedge funds offered to increase disclosure to head off demands from politicians on at least two continents for more transparency. &ldquo;We know which way the wind is blowing,&rdquo; said Andrew Baker, chief executive of London-based [&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":[457,4760,87,1148,67,637,7971,7985,4756,8088,3364,7970,3169,2836,4388,236,8086,8087],"class_list":["post-9961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-alternative-investment-management-association","tag-andrew-baker","tag-angela-merkel","tag-chancellor-angela-merkel","tag-chief-executive","tag-disclosure","tag-european-leaders","tag-german-chancellor-angela-merkel","tag-investment-management-association","tag-lobby-group","tag-london","tag-meeting-in-berlin","tag-politicians","tag-systemic-risk","tag-transparency","tag-trillion","tag-two-continents","tag-world-economies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961","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=9961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}