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Entries from November 2009

Scorecard on Hedge Fund Registration Legislation

Posted under Regulation, SEC on November 10th, 2009 by Judith Gross0 comments

We’re not sure what inning it is, but the hits are coming in fast and furious when it comes to bill proposals for hedge fund registration.  Just today, Chris Dodd released the discussion draft of  the “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2009’’, which contains within it the ‘‘Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of [...]

Hedge Fund Insider Trading Probe Expands

Posted under Insider Trading, SEC on November 5th, 2009 by Judith Gross0 comments

With the arrest of 13 additional individuals and entities in the Galleon  case, we urgently see the  need for hedge fund compliance to beef up in two areas:
     OPERATIONAL RISK CONTOLS- Hedge Funds need to understand and monitor where and how the information being traded on is generated.
    TRAINING - Employees need to understand precisely what [...]