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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9242
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/financial services

Commission favours limited changes to investment rules, leaving hedge funds and private equity funds unchanged

Brussels, 28/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - At a public hearing organised in July on investment funds, EU Internal Market and Services Commissioner Charlie McCreevy briefed participants on his initial conclusions regarding three reports on Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS), capital investment funds and hedge funds written by three expert groups from the financial industry set up in the wake of the European Commission's Green Paper on asset management (see...

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