bloomberg.com - 5/3/2009
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(Corrects first paragraph to remove reference to SEC seeking authority over what hedge funds can buy and borrow in story published May 2.) May 2 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should be given more authority over hedge funds because registration falls short of what’s ...
bloomberg.com - 5/2/2009
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May 2 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission should be given authority to regulate what...
hedge funds can buy and how much money they can borrow to maximize bets because registration falls short of what’s needed to police the $1.33 ...
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SEC Chief Schapiro Wants Authority to Make Hedge-Fund Rules
online.wsj.com - 5/7/2009
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Give the financial crisis credit for at least
one good thing: it exposed the Securities and Exchange...
Commission. From systemic risk to Bernie Madoff, the failure of the SEC is now an accepted truth on Wall Street. The commission not only whiffed on ...
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SEC Squanders a Shot at Reform
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SEC Chief Schapiro Wants Authority to Make Hedge-Fund Rules
IEHI Feed: The Hedge Fund Implode-o-Meter —
SEC Chief Schapiro Wants Authority to Make Hedge-Fund Rules (bloomberg.com) Search Enter your search terms Web HF Submit search form 2009-05-03 “It’s probably not enough just to register hedge funds” with the SEC, Schapiro said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend. “It may well be necessary to put in place particular kinds of rules.” ...
Guest Post: Who's Bullying Who?
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Submitted by Leo Kolivakis, publisher of Pension Pulse. Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw asks: Is the White house Bullying Hedge Funds? Professor Mankiw cites prominent hedge fund manager Clifford Asness who struck back at the Obama administration, saying hedge funds had the right and responsibility to hold out on last week's Chrysler LLC restructuring deal: "Managers have a fiduciary obligation to look after their clients' money as best they can, not to support the ...
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