{"id":5923,"date":"2007-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"light-hedge-fund-rules-ok-bernanke-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2007\/light-hedge-fund-rules-ok-bernanke-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Light hedgefund rules OK &#8211; Bernanke says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"story-dateline\">New York &#8211;&nbsp;<\/span> Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said that a &#8220;light regulatory touch&#8221; on hedge funds is justified because of the incentives that investorsand creditors have to monitor risks.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Because hedge funds deal with highly sophisticated counterparties and investors, and because they have no claims on the federal safety net, the light regulatory touch seems largely justified,&#8221;  Bernanke said in a speech to the New York University School of Law&#8217;s Global Economic Policy Forum. &#8220;Thus far, the market-based approach to the regulation of hedge funds seems to have worked well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/business\/investing\/bal-bz.bernanke12apr12,0,7390983.story?coll=bal-business-headlines\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York &#8211;&nbsp; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said that a &#8220;light regulatory touch&#8221; on hedge funds is justified because of the incentives that investorsand creditors have to monitor risks. &#8220;Because hedge funds deal with highly sophisticated counterparties and [&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-5923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5923","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=5923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}