Andrew Bowden SEC

“Let Them Sell Their Summer Homes” – NYC’s Largest Public Pension to Ditch Hedge Funds

Despite the at times disconcertingly polite tone, the SEC has now announced that more than 50 percent of private equity firms it has audited have engaged in serious infractions of securities laws. These abuses were detected thanks to to Dodd Frank. Private equity general partners had been unregulated until early 2012, when they were required to SEC regulation as investment advisers.
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