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From Kirsten Bischoff, Opalesque New York: Regulatory agencies are concerned with hedge funds' ability to move markets, and the lack of transparency related to many funds' investments. This Fall's Global Alpha Forum will include a panel to look at hedge fund industry regulation. In advance of that, we wanted to take a look at what feels like the temporary change in the regulatory environment and what hedge funds are doing to prepare for 2009 and what could possibly be a year of regulatory change industry-wide. Opalesque also spoke with Andrew Shrimpton, of London based Kinetic Partners about the parallel holding pattern which hedge fund managers in the UK are also experiencing for industry regulation. Shrimpton will be one of the panelists discussing Global Hedge Fund Regulation at The Global Alpha Forum being held on September 16-18 in Greenwich Connecticut.

The regulatory holding pattern As 2008 ramped up so, it seems did the credit crisis. But in the eye of the perfect storm of subprime, the rise in oil and commodity prices, and the fall of Bear Stearns there was a shift in the government's attention away from close inspection of the fundamentals of the economy and towards targeting the financial industry with further regulation. The clamoring for regulation took the form of plans to increase the US Federal Reserve's monitoring role, the CFTC launching a series of initiatives to review alleged commodity m......................

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