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   "text": "Based on these findings, there appears to be no immediate need for policy makers to address concerns over a possible effect of Title IV on startup hedge funds and smaller hedge fund advisers.",
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   "text": "The measured effect of Form PF data reporting on the private fund industry is milder than the pre-adoption debate predicted.",
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   "text": "On the cost evidence collected here for both smaller and larger advisers, the industry's long standing objection that mandatory registration and disclosure would inappropriately burden investment advisers is mostly unfounded.",
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   "text": "Most of the identified problems with Form PF are self correcting over time, as the SEC issues additional and improved guidance or revises the core questions and definitions that filers flagged as problematic.",
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   "text": "Standardizing private fund adviser reporting obligations is the author's proposed remedy for the shortcomings advisers identified, because standardization attacks the ambiguity and inefficiency in the reporting requirements at their source and simplifies the disclosure regime.",
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   "text": "A single standardized reporting model will not suffice: because different types of private fund advisers have competing needs, policy makers should evaluate several different models for standardizing Form PF reporting.",
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   "text": "Because the market reacts positively both to N/DPA announcements and to the governance improvements taking effect, the DOJ's escalation of N/DPA executions beginning in 2002 could be justified on market value grounds.",
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   "text": "Changing AUM preferences driven by compliance costs could eventually produce industry consolidation aimed at cost savings, or drive a shift toward family offices that manage no third-party assets and therefore escape the regime.",
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   "text": "The comparative evidence suggests the long-term effects of the evolving post-Dodd-Frank regulatory environment may be more substantial than either the industry or regulators initially anticipated.",
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   "text": "Barriers to entry for small firms are becoming an increasing problem in the private fund industry under the evolving post-Dodd-Frank legal environment, with references to such barriers rising from 24 percent of respondents in 2012 to 33 percent in 2015.",
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