Financial crisis and hedge funds: Top five report to Congress

John Paulson, George Soros, Citadel’s Ken Griffin, Harbinger Capital’s Philip Falcone and Renaissance Technologies’ James Simons were all grilled by Congress in November about hedge funds’ role in contributing to the financial markets’ meltdown.

Pension funds: Widening the short-selling blame game

Discussions focused on hedge fund pay, who or what should be blamed for the meltdown and the need for regulation. The latter was almost unanimously agreed upon.

Soros admitted that funds had been an integral part of the bubble that had now burst but warned: “There is a real danger that excessive deregulation will be succeeded by punitive regulation. That would be unfortunate because regulations are liable to be even more deficient than the market mechanisms.

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