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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December 10, 2008
In the conversations the hedge fund community will be having with Congress and the regulators in the coming months regarding increased regulation, we should look to shared answers to the issues which need to be addressed. In this vein, I have been researching the speeches of prominent SEC personel. I have just recently reviewed a [...]
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Hedge Funds with $25MM of AUM to Register Under Commissioner Aguilar’s Plan
July 2, 2009SEC Commissioner Aguilar Proposes Registration For Funds with as little as $25MM of AUM
Just today I had an opportunity to review the transcript of a speech by SEC Commissioner Aguilar in which he advocates that funds with as little as $25MM of AUM should register with the SEC. Such a low threshold for registration is [...]