Brussels, 09/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - Often stigmatised for lack of openness and taking a predatory attitude vis-à-vis other financial institutions, hedge funds seem to be weathering the financial storm better than banks, according to a public hearing on hedge funds and private equity funds organised on Tuesday 8 April 2008 by the European Parliament's economic and monetary policy committee, which will feed into an own initiative report by Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (PES, Denmark) (see EUROPE...