The Future of Advertising

Filed in archive Hedgetalk on April 3, 2008

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A high-level panel of hedge fund experts are planing a forum to discuss and debate the state of hedge fund advertising and marketing in the alternative investment management community.

Panel-participant Phil Goldstein, the plaintiff who single-handedly defeated a plan to require hedge funds to register with the SEC, has even discussed suing the SEC on First Amendment grounds, which could lead to major changes in the industry.

The 1,600-member Managed Funds Association, represented on the panel by Benjamin Allensworth, senior legal counsel, has long advocated for a loosening of the SEC's restrictions.

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