Private Funds

Creditors and counterparties that deal with hedge funds are conducting greater due diligence and tightening credit standards even as the funds disclose more, according to ...

Phone records are behind the SEC's first case involving allegations of insider trading of credit default swaps by a hedge fund. The agency has charged ...

Institutional investors have pushed hedge funds to become more transparent and adopt more compliance functions, increasing costs for funds. These expenses are only going to ...

More reporting to governmental regulators, "increased transparency of systemically significant positions and risk exposures," disclosure of short positions, new policies to fight naked shorting and ...

A new 11-page document from SIFMA offers advice for hedge funds interested in adopting anti-money laundering procedures. The Anti-Money Laundering Suggested Due Diligence Practices for ...

Cast this act as almost Madoff-ian. The SEC has filed legal action against a hedge fund manager, claiming Grant Ivan Grieve went to enormous lengths ...

The ink's not even dry on proposed bills that would register hedge funds and analysts are already warning the legislation would catch many more entities ...

The House has a bill to consider - the Hedge Fund Adviser Registration Act of 2009 (H.R. 711) - to go with the one the ...

Many predicted hedge fund registration this year and a bill has been introduced in Congress - the Hedge Fund Transparency Act of 2009 - that ...

If you needed one more sign that the government's likely to mandate registration of hedge funds, consider a new report from the President's Working Group ...