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...effort to shore up investor protection while reducing risk - has attracted growing criticism. London-based AIMA, a global hedge-fund industry group, calls proposed disclosure requirements bureaucratic. Kinetic Partners, a consultancy for the U.K. hedge-fund industry, reckons meeting stricter capital requirements and risk-management rules could cost British funds as much as $5 billion. For those outside the E.U., though, the proposals are just as stern. Managers or funds elsewhere in the world that don't meet equivalent regulatory standards will be barred from touting to European investors. "Basically," says Julian Korek, founding member of Kinetic, the region "becomes...
...have discovered loopholes in the ethics reform that I championed that allows them to continually, continually bombard the state with frivolous ethics-violation charges, with lawsuits, with these fishing expeditions. We win the lawsuits, we win the ethics charges, we win all that - but it comes at such great cost. The distraction, the waste of time and money, the public's time and money - it's insane to continue down this road. And Alaskans who have paid attention to what's going on, they understand that. (Read "How Sarah Palin Mastered Politics...
...there's been some frustration with some in the media not fully reporting what's been going on, so this may come as a shock to some Alaskans. We have sat down with reporters, showed them proof of the frivolity, the wastefulness - you know, millions of dollars this is costing our state to fight frivolous charges. And countless, countless hours from my staff, our department of law, from me every single day just trying to set the record straight. And it doesn't cost the adversaries a dime in this game. It costs our state so much in time...
...finance professor at Northwestern University and one of the paper's authors. "It's very easy to do this in the U.S." Even though there are serious consequences to reneging on a home loan - including wrecked credit, not being able to buy another house for years to come, the cost of moving and the social stigma associated with being a person who does not honor one's commitments - lenders tend not to pursue former homeowners for the money they are owed because of the prohibitive cost of tracking down such people and suing them...
...Even if U.S. Navy warships quickly stepped in to keep the waterway open, traders and tanker captains would be spooked, and the cost of transporting oil would rise sharply. "It is a scenario anyone who looks at security of supplies considers," says David Fyfe, head of the oil-markets division at the International Energy Agency in Paris, which represents oil-consuming industrialized countries. "It would affect up to 12 million bbl. of oil a day." (See highlights from a debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin...