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congress and hedge funds

NASAA Takes Sides on Proposed Hedge Fund Legislation

May 31, 2009

Endorses House Bill Over the Grassley-Levin Hedge Fund Bill
Last week the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) announced its support of the Hedge Fund Adviser Registration Act of 2009, a house bill introduced earlier this year by Representatives Capuano and Castle.  The Hedge Fund Adviser Registration Act is one of two bills introduced in Congress [...]

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Hedge Fund Registration Becoming More Likely

January 27, 2009

SEC Commissioner Calls for Hedge Fund Registration in Two Recent Speeches
In two separate speeches this year SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar has called for hedge fund registration.  Commissioner Aguilar, appointed to the Commission last year, asked Congress to pass legislation amending the Investment Advisors Act to give the SEC authority to regulate hedge funds or [...]

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Hedge Fund Taxation - Law School Professor Perspective

January 14, 2009

Overview of Hedge Fund Taxation
The following is a reprint of the Joseph Bankman’s testimony before Congress.  Mr. Bankman is a professor at Stanford Law School.  While the testimony has a bias against the current hedge fund taxation structure, it provides a great overview of hedge fund tax issue, specifically the taxation of the hedge fund [...]

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SEC Stands Behind “Fair Value” Accounting

January 7, 2009

FASB may re-evaluate FAS 157 in light of recent market events
While the SEC does not directly control the manner in which hedge fund assets are valued for the purpose of striking a NAV for a fund, the SEC valuation policies are important for hedge funds in a number of different ways.  Maybe most important is [...]

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Hedge Funds, Congress and Madoff

January 2, 2009

The Madoff scandal, which caught the SEC and savy institutional investors flat-footed, is increasing the pressure for more oversight and regulation within investment management and hedge fund industries.   It is expected that Congress will be busy with this and other matters regarding regulation of the capital markets.  In fact, Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa recently [...]

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