President George W. Bush yesterday nominated a skeptic of hedge fund regulation to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

California hedge funds need not fear a local registration requirement, for now.

The Golden State’s Department of Corporations last week said it is shelving plans to eliminate an exemption that allows most hedge funds and private equity firms to avoid registering with it.

The Securities and Exchange Commission may be ruing the day it fired Gary Aguirre.

Missouri’s attorney general has asked the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to step in to protect farmers from hedge funds and other commodities speculators.

The indomitable Philip Goldstein plans to institutionalize his opposition to hedge fund regulation with a chamber of commerce for the industry.

Hedge funds dodged a taxing bullet last year, when Congress failed to agree on a rate hike on so-called “carried interest.” But there’s a new call for higher taxers emanating from hedge funds’ hometown: New York City.

Hedge funds should improve disclosure and risk management, and set up independent valuation committees, a pair of government-appointed panels have recommended, voluntary measures that have come under fire from some sectors.

The new head of the U.S. hedge fund industry’s chief lobbying group is politely throwing down the gauntlet on new regulations.

Hedge fund lobbies on both sides of the Atlantic are joining forces to speak in one voice for the global hedge fund industry.

Rumors of hedge funds shorting the stock of the U.K. largest mortgage bank sent the financial company’s shares down sharply on Wednesday.