
Hedge funds agree to more regulation of their industry
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The hearing came as senator Charles Grassley, ranking member on the Finance Committee, announced he intends to reintroduce legislation to require hedge funds to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In 2004, the SEC did attempt to force hedge funds to register with them, make certain information public and allow the supervisor to review their books. The programme failed, however, following a federal court challenge by one fund that was not appealed by the SEC.
At the hearing, George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, stated that the entire US regulatory framework needed to be "reconsidered" and hedge funds need to be regulated within that new framework.
The other hedge fund managers that testified were John Alfred Paulson, president of Paulson & Co, James Simons, president of Renaissance Technologies, Philip Falcone, senior managing partner of Harbinger Capital Partners, and Kenneth Griffin, chief executive and president of Citadel Investment Group.
The managers confirmed that they would now be willing to provide information to supervisors for the purpose of monitoring systemic risk. However, they would not support releasing information on their investment strategies.
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