SEC&#39;s hedge fund debate intense
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Nearly two years to the day after the most contentious hearing in memory, a divided Securities and Exchange Commission clashed Tuesday over a new rule requiring hedge funds to register with the SEC.
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Battle lines are drawn at the Federal Reserve between those who favor formal inflation goals and those who don&#39;t, and the debate is heating up ahead of the coming retirement of Chairman Alan Greenspan.
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Everybody's getting into hedge funds, including Bill Galvin. The Massachusetts secretary of state, who also happens to be the state's top securities regulator, clearly had the hedge-fund industry in his sights at the start of this year. He began investigating a so-called hedge-fund hotel run in downtown Boston by brokerage giant UBS AG right away. Now Galvin has filed charges ...
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The debacle in mortgage lending that spurred wild daily swings in the markets has tripped up many hedge funds.
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Description: A divided Securities and Exchange Commission will likely approve new regulations governing the hedge fund industry. Under the rules, all but the smallest hedge funds would be required to register with federal regulators.
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The move to start a formal review of how the U.S. regulates financial markets and hedge funds comes amid concerns over competition from overseas trading capitals.
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Investors in two struggling Bear  Stearns Cos.  hedge funds that made bad bets on risky  mortgages will almost surely file lawsuits in hopes of  recouping losses, but legal experts say they could have a tough  time proving their case.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is finding troubling indications that mutual-fund companies and other money managers paid retirement-plan consultants to be recommended to the consultants&#39; clients, people familiar with the probe told The Wall Street
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The treasury secretary questioned whether egulators had âstruck the right balance between investor protection and market competitiveness.â
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is increasing its scrutiny of the potential for insider trading at hedge funds.
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A hedge fund managed by Bear Stearns  Cos. Inc.  is scrambling to sell large amounts of  mortgage-backed bonds in a potentially troubling sign for the  broader mortgage-backed bond market, The Wall Street Journal  reported in its online edition.
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Lavishness is being replaced by caution at hedge funds due to the recent turmoil in the markets and calls from Capitol Hill to increase taxes on the industry.
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The chief United States financial watchdog is to force previously unregulated hedge fund managers to register with the agency, amid growing concern about their influence on global markets.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange  Commission is examining whether J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. should  have known that the Canary Capital Partners LLC hedge fund was  making improper trades, the Wall Street Journal reported on  Thursday.
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Enormous losses at Amaranth Advisors resurrected worries that major bets by hedge funds could create widespread financial disruptions.
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Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, has some tough questions on why hedge fund returns look so much like returns in the stock market.
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US regulators calls for greater oversight of hedge funds, and more transparency over the way they work.