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   "text": "Because creditor disclosure obligations in bankruptcy are minimal and a general statement of the type of claim often suffices, hedge funds' penchant for secrecy carries over into the bankruptcy process even when they participate as debt holders.",
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   "text": "If Form PF systemic risk data became publicly available, or even only available to the presiding bankruptcy judge in a chapter 9 or chapter 11 case, the hedge fund industry's strong preference for secrecy could itself precipitate a change in distressed investment practices.",
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   "text": "Hedge fund secrecy is not incidental but competitively necessary: the less the market knows about a fund's activities, the easier it is for the fund to compete and generate the returns clients demand.",
   "abstract": "Their penchant for secrecy originates in hedge funds' need to stay competitive to generate the returns demanded by their clients. The less information the market has about hedge funds' activities, the easier it is for them to compete with other funds.",
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   "text": "Indirect regulation lets hedge funds preserve the opacity their strategies require, on the condition that their counterparties rather than the funds become the primary regulatory targets.",
   "abstract": "Indirect regulation allows the hedge fund industry to preserve the necessary opaqueness of the activities of hedge funds if hedge fund's counterparties become the primary regulatory targets.",
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   "text": "The author concedes a standing tension: hedge funds must remain secretive because less market information about their activities is what keeps them profitable, which limits how far any transparency oriented reform can go.",
   "abstract": "On the other hand, however, hedge funds need to remain in secrecy because the less information the market has about hedge fund's activities, the easier it is for them to stay profitable.",
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