European Commission asks for help on hedge funds; gets variety of answers
Feb 15th, 2009 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Regulation, Today's Post
Over the past two months, the European Commission has embarked on an examination of hedge funds that it says:
“…will play an important role in informing the ongoing reflections at European and international level on whether there is a need to reassess the appropriateness of existing approaches to the regulation and supervision of this sector.”
The Commission issued this “Consultation Paper” in December to collect the opinions of various constituencies from hedge fund investors to hedge fund managers. We admit to not submitting our own feedback during the appropriate time window (which ended 2 weeks ago). But for what it’s worth, here are our two cents…
In framing the questions, the consultation paper makes certain assumptions that have not been proven by researchers. This creates the appearance of bias in the framing of the questions. In fact, some assertions in the document seem to contradict the views of several prominent academics.
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For example, the paper says: More…
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