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This is the last part of the series on Financial regulation and the Hedge Fund Industry which gives an overview of the main regulatory bodies...

This article has been written with the help of several sources including Wikipedia, the Financial Times, the Handbook of Hedge Funds by Francois-Serge Lhabitant,...

The announcement by the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) last year to exit 30 hedge funds entire investment valued at $4 billion was...

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank) empowered the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to extend monetary awards to whistleblowers who provide...

On March 31, 2012, rules governing family office hedge funds were radically changed. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act mandated that many family office...

One of the most significant features of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank) was the establishment of the Financial Stability Oversight...

Among the regulations governing hedge funds are the restrictions found in Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933. Those restrictions allow hedge fund...

On December 10, 2013, five U.S. agencies jointly issued the Volcker Rule, a rule mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act (“Dodd-Frank”) to...