G8 set to investigate hedge funds
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The G8 group of leading industrial nations is to study whether hedge funds pose a risk, says Germany.
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Germany has won support from the United States and Britain for an initiative to tighten controls on hedge funds, a newspaper reported on Monday.
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A deeply divided Securities and Exchange Commission voted to mandate new oversight for hedge funds -- largely unregulated investment pools traditionally for the wealthy that have become popular with small investors in recent years.
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The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday it would increase its monitoring of energy trading and related market developments as more banks and hedge funds enter the energy markets.
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The House Financial Services Committee will draft legislation requiring U.S. hedge funds to keep copies of trading data and will take a closer look at the role of credit rating agencies in the collapse of some funds linked to subprime mortgages, the panel chairman said on Wednesday.
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A suit against a large hedge fund filed by Carl C. Icahn, the billionaire financier, could shine a bright light on the largely unregulated hedge fund industry.
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German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck  reiterated his wish to see greater oversight of the hedge fund  industry ahead of a key summit, but said he did not expect  consensus on the matter to be reached quickly.
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Leaders from the world's major industrialized nations will try to paper over deep divisions on global warming and a range of foreign policy issues when they meet on the Baltic coast this week for a G8 summit.
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The German and French financial  watchdogs said on Thursday they were looking into recent  trading by U.S. financial services group Citigroup C.N in  European government bond and derivative markets.
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An Australian hedge fund felled by its  exposure to risky credit derivatives filed for bankruptcy  protection in the United States, and liquidators on Thursday  were assessing how much money, if any, would be returned to  investors.
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France and Germany's market watchdogs say they are looking into Citigroup bond trades already under scrutiny in the UK.
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The U.S., the European Union and Canada plan to ask the World Trade Organization to set up a panel to investigate.
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U.S. tax authorities are seeking information from two U.S. banks to determine whether complex derivatives trades they undertook for clients, including hedge funds, were designed primarily to avoid taxes, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Thursday.
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ESSEN, Germany, Feb. 10 -- The Group of Seven called for more vigilance on the rising power of hedge funds but favored a conciliatory approach toward the industry.
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Hedge fund advisers will have to register with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and submit to examinations under a new rule approved in a 3-2 vote by the market-policing agency on Tuesday.
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Market discipline will protect investors and the economy from problems with hedge funds, regulators said today.
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The Treasury Department yesterday assembled two blue-ribbon groups that will explore ways to minimize the risks associated with hedge funds, the latest step to promote accountability in the $1 trillion sector without restricting its growth.