Regulation

The U.S. Treasury Dept. has unveiled its own proposal for how hedge fund registration, a linchpin of the coming U.S. regulatory regime for the industry, should work.

Steven Rattner, the former hedge fund and private equity magnate, has resigned as head of President Barack Obama’s auto task force.

A quintet of alternative investment industry players have been chosen to participate in the federal government’s toxic asset program.

Lori Richards, who has led the Securities and Exchange Commission’s office of compliance inspections and examinations since its creation 14 years ago, is leaving the regulator.

Commodities hedge funds are about to become more transparent, whether they like it or not.

Britain’s financial services minister is continuing his assault on the European Union’s proposed hedge fund rules.

Stanley FinkThe European Union’s proposed hedge fund rules could provoke a kind of hedge fund protectionism in the U.S., one of the industry’s leading executives has warned.

While the rules would impose onerous new restrictions and requirements on European hedge funds, they will all but shut out those from outside of the EU, according to former Man Group CEO Stanley Fink. And that could invite a proportionate response from across the Atlantic.

Hedge funds, and others, dabbling in market abuse in Britain could face a much bigger bill, if they get caught.

New rules governing investment in banks may scare off private equity firms just as the buyout industry becomes a major player in that sector, the p.e. lobby said.

Since Bernard Madoff’s arrest, much has been made of Harry Markopolous, who for years tried—and failed—to get the Securities and Exchange Commission to take a closer look at Madoff’s operations. But it seems the SEC had an in-house whistleblower that it also ignored.