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After completing a disastrous year in financial markets, many experts believe a wave of regulation may be on the way. Jeff Blumberg, partner at Drinker Biddle and a member of its investment management practice group, provided possible scenarios for regulatory changes. One would be the creation of a super regulator, which would encompass all of the current financial regulators based on the Treasury department's white paper published a year ago; the second possibility would be to require third-party oversight of hedge funds; and the third possibility would be to increase the accredited investor standard. Meanwhile, despite completing a strong quarter in its best year since 1990, the managed futures industry saw significant redemptions in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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Are More Hedge Fund Regs On the Way?
After completing a disastrous year in financial markets, capped by the $50 billion Bernie Madoff scandal, many experts bel...
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