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   "text": "Persistent multi-channel follow-up, by fax, e-mail, and telephone, yielded ninety-four completed surveys, a 7.42% response rate from a population of 1267, which is substantially higher than response rates in prior surveys of this industry.",
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   "text": "The time burden of complying with all federal rules applicable to hedge fund advisers has a median of 500 hours per year, with three quarters of respondents at 750 hours or less and a quarter above that, so the burden distribution is skewed rather than uniform.",
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   "text": "The pre Dodd-Frank exemption for advisers with fewer than fifteen clients failed as a regulatory boundary because most hedge fund advisers deliberately designed their operations and legal structures to fit within it and thereby escape SEC registration and supervision.",
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   "text": "The Title IV threshold registration requirement pulls a majority of the hedge fund advisers who had previously relied on the fewer than fifteen clients exemption into SEC registration.",
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