Wednesday, October 3, 2012

In 'JOBS' Act Land Rush, Hedge Funds Poised to Win Big….But



From Businessweek: The firms most likely to benefit first from new rules that would allow hedge funds to conduct wide advertising campaigns aren’t hedge funds.

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in April, ended a ban on the advertising of non-registered securities as part of an effort to expand funding options for startup companies. The law may give the biggest advantage to firms with trillions of dollars in assets and create a divide between asset managers that offer hedge funds, private equity and other alternatives and those that don’t, such as traditional mutual-fund companies.

“The JOBS Act is something where the advantage is for hedge funds, but they don’t have the skills for it and the traditional managers that have alternatives have the capabilities to take advantage of it,” Benjamin Phillips, a partner at consulting firm Casey, Quirk & Associates in Darien, Connecticut, said in a telephone interview…….

Find out more at http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-03/blackrock-leads-firms-poised-to-win-from-hedge-fund-ads#r=bloomberg

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