{"id":5455,"date":"2006-12-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"top-regulator-questions-hedge-fund-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2006\/top-regulator-questions-hedge-fund-activism.html","title":{"rendered":"Top regulator questions hedge fund activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Shareholder activism in how companies are run should be welcomed but hedge funds sometimes take it too far, a top regulator said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>  Michel Prada, a senior member of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), told the European Parliament that hedge funds made markets more efficient but presented several  risks.<\/p>\n<p>  IOSCO is a global umbrella group of national market regulators that forges common standards.<\/p>\n<p>  Systemic risk and price manipulation were just two dangers, Prada told the parliament&#8217;s economic affairs committee.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/64544398\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/64544398\/newsarticle.aspx\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Shareholder activism in how companies are run should be welcomed but hedge funds sometimes take it too far, a top regulator said on Wednesday. Michel Prada, a senior member of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}