{"id":5988,"date":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"safrica-plans-to-regulate-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2007\/safrica-plans-to-regulate-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa plans to regulate hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  JOHANNESBURG, April 25 (Reuters) &#8211; South African regulators plan to bring the hedge fund sector within the scope of current legislation to increase investor protection, the Reserve Bank said on  Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Similar to other international initiatives, South African regulators intend to bring the hedge fund sector within the scope of current legislation in order to create a more transparent environment  to enhance investor protection,&#8221; the bank said in its March quarterly Financial Stability Review.<\/p>\n<p>  Last week a draft report commissioned by the G7 industrial powers said regulators should consider asking major dealer firms to provide more information about their total exposure to hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>  The report also urged investors and counterparties to make sure hedge funds give them frequent updates about the risks they are taking.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/5-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/investing\/FinanceArticle.aspx%3Ftype%3DbondsNews%26storyID%3D2007-04-25T123801Z_01_L25021957_RTRIDST_0_SAFRICA-CBANK-FUNDS-UPDATE-1.XML&amp;cid=1115724479&amp;ei=nJ8wRq7zIZe00QGRwJTJAw\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 25 (Reuters) &#8211; South African regulators plan to bring the hedge fund sector within the scope of current legislation to increase investor protection, the Reserve Bank said on Wednesday. &#8220;Similar to other international initiatives, South African regulators intend [&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-5988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988","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=5988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}