William H. Donaldson

• Appeals Court Reviews SEC's Independent Fund Board Mandate

  By Staff Writer  |  May 11, 2005

  May 5, 2005 -- A challenge to the Securities and Exchange Commission's new mutual fund regulations was heard in appeals court in Washington DC on...

• No Satisfaction: Dissenters Rip SEC Hedge Fund Rule

  By Staff Writer  |  December 13, 2004

  WASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)--Calling the Securities and Exchange Commission's new rule to require registration of hedge fund managers as investment advisers "the wrong solution to an undefined problem," Commissioners Cynthia A. Glassman and Paul S. Atkins vented months of frustration with the SEC's rulemaking process and its result in a 30-page dissent...

• Donaldson: We'll Win Back Distrustful Investors by Registering Advisors

  By Staff Writer  |  October 26, 2004

  WASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)--William H. Donaldson, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, used the occasion of a speech to a mutual fund directors' group to make the case for the SEC's recent and continuing reform agenda, including the hedge fund adviser registration initiative. Mr. Donaldson, speaking to the Independent Directors Council...

• Donaldson Speaks to NASD: Hedge Funds and Risk Maps

  By Staff Writer  |  May 17, 2004

  BALTIMORE, Md. (HedgeWorld.com)--The National Association of Securities Dealers has convened its annual meeting, and its two keynote speakers both are well known to the hedge...

• Expect Proposed Hedge Fund Rules This Month: Donaldson

  By Staff Writer  |  May 10, 2004

  FORT WORTH, Texas (HedgeWorld.com)--William H. Donaldson kept up the drumbeat for hedge fund regulation over the weekend, telling a conference of business editors and writers...

• Donaldson Says Commission's Hedge Fund Knowledge 'Woefully Inadequate'

  By Staff Writer  |  May 4, 2004

  PALM BEACH, Fla. (HedgeWorld.com)--Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William H. Donaldson told an audience of registered investment advisers that the commission's knowledge of hedge funds...

• Donaldson Has 'Personal Concerns' Re Hedge Funds

  By Staff Writer  |  April 19, 2004

  WASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)--The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission testified before a committee of the Senate on investor-protection issues as they relate both to mutual...

• SEC Outlines Plan for Tighter Control of Mutual Fu

  By Staff Writer  |  November 19, 2003

  An excerpt from the Nov. 19, 2003, edition of The

• SEC to Release Report on Hedge Funds

  By Staff Writer  |  September 29, 2003

  WASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)--The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission plans in the coming days to release the results of its 15-month investigation of the hedge fund industry,...

• New York State Attorney General's Case aga

  By Staff Writer  |  September 8, 2003

  NEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General, alleges that Canary Capital Partners LLC, a firm with offices in Secaucus, N.J., and New York...