Wednesday, January 23, 2013

What Volcker? Goldman Sachs Ignores Rule while Lawmakers Procrastinate




Prohedge’s Nigel Someck reports: ,Goldman Sachs have largely bucked the trend of a mad scramble to comply with the Volcker rule as the bank continues to push ahead with private equity, real-estate and Chinese proprietary investment activity.

It is true that much of Goldman’s proprietary hedge fund businesses “spun-out” of the Wall Street firm over the past 3 years to form independent fund management companies. However, Goldman still pushes ahead with a number of proprietary trading activities that would be in direct breach of Volcker if it were to be enforced…..

Read all about it at http://www.prohedge.co.uk/what-volcker-goldman-sachs-ignores-rule-whilst-lawmakers-procrastinate

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