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S.E.C. Staff Recommends Tighter Limits Of Hedge Funds

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has recommended tighter regulation of hedge funds, entailing greater disclosure of operations and registration of the funds, and having the effect of raising eligibility requirements for small investors in the funds by $500,000 to $1.5 million in many cases. Such changes would make the hedge funds provide more accurate valuations of their assets. Privately, however, some S.E.C. officials note that new rules will have little effect if the S.E.C. does not get more resources to devote to policing the hedge fund industry.

Legal issues & crime, Strategy & planning, Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors, Securities & Commodities Regulatn, Security and Commodity Services, Securities & Commodities Services, Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities, Consumer Protection Laws, Planning, Government regulation, Securities industry, Disclosure (Securities law), Securities law, United States. Securities and Exchange Commission, Hedge funds, Company business planning

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Advertising: can Internet advertisers police themselves? Washington remains unconvinced

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The Federal Trade Commission and Internet advertisers are developing rules for the use of data the businesses collect from consumers using the Web. Since Web sites can track each click of a mouse on a Web page, advocates want clearly defined rules protecting users' anonymnity and privacy. So-called online profiling companies, such as DoubleClick could tie names to Web movements. Privacy advocates would like consumers to decide what information these businesses collect and sell.

Advertising agencies, Privacy, Political aspects, Electronic surveillance

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Government and Internet ad group reach an agreement on data gleaned from Web surfers

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The FTC and the Network Advertising Initiative agreed to restrictions on use of information gathered from consumers on the Web. For example, linking anonymous shopping data to a specific consumer will require the consumer's consent. The Internet ad group is backed by DoubleClick, AdKnowledge, Engage Technologies and others, representing about 90% of the industry.

Market Research Services, Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling, Commercial nonphysical research, Marketing research firms

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