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...fallout from financial meltdown wasn't enough, there's another stiff challenge facing the world's investment-fund industry. Only this time it's from Brussels. Fresh E.U. proposals would require hedge funds, private equity and a host of other alternative investment funds to meet tougher regulation before they can market to investors in the region. The legislation - tabled for discussion in late April in an 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...
...Beating up on hedge funds or private equity on the tail of a banking crisis is itself a little puzzling. Official reports into the financial crisis - such as the British government-commissioned Turner Review, published in March - assigned such funds only a peripheral role in the tumult. National politicians have been quick to come to their defense. "It is not private equity that caused the crisis, nor hedge funds," Mats Odell, Sweden's financial markets minister said earlier this month in the context of the E.U.'s proposals. "But in some countries, the political debate portrays [them] as the problem...
...plan to close off Europe to managers or funds outside the E.U. that aren't subjected to equivalent regulation - a provision that would kick in three years after the rest of the legislation, giving jurisdictions and managers time to adapt - promises the most significant change. The E.U.'s approach is understandable. If you want to protect European investors, it's no good regulating domestic fund managers if those selling to investors from outside the region aren't obliged to respect similar rules. But while U.S. efforts are underway to bolster the policing of hedge funds - and the meaning of equivalent...
...because they're going to be cheaper over there to produce, and our country is going to be in a world of hurt. And that, of course, has so much to do with his economic policy in thinking that it's O.K. to borrow money from other countries to fund this government largesse that he's believing in. It doesn't make any sense. We need to develop responsibly our natural resources of energy here. This will provide the jobs here, the true economic stimulus is developing our domestic, safe supplies of energy here, and Alaska is the place...
...trillion] or $3 trillion health-care plan? How are you going to pay off the stimulus package, those borrowed dollars? How are you going to pay for so many things that you are proposing and you are implementing? Americans deserve to know what the plan is to fund these things, health care included...