http://truthonthemarket.com/2006/01/28/hedge-fund-registration-requirement/ Academic commentary on law, business, economics and more Wed, 30 May 2012 11:20:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://truthonthemarket.com/2006/01/28/hedge-fund-registration-requirement/#comment-5342 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:10:48 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2006/01/28/hedge-fund-registration-requirement/#comment-5342 [...] Following up on this post, according to an article in today’s FT, 1,000 hedge fund advisers had already registered with the SEC prior to adoption of the registration requirement. So it appears that about 1,800 hedge fund advisers will be registered. Again, there are an estimated 8,000 hedge funds. Granted some advisers likely manage more than one fund, it looks like somewhere near a quarter of hedge fund advisers will be registered. [...]

]]> http://truthonthemarket.com/2006/01/28/hedge-fund-registration-requirement/#comment-5341 Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:37:21 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2006/01/28/hedge-fund-registration-requirement/#comment-5341 [...] Bill Sjostrom at Truth on the Market notes this same news and reviews the reasons why the SEC chose to regulate hedge fund managers in the first place. He also highlights what changes the rules will mean for advisors. He asks one seemingly obvious question that remains unanswered: But if the SEC truly believes additional regulation is warranted and adviser registration is the right answer, why did they draft rules that appear to result in much less than half of hedge fund advisers registering? [...]

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