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   "text": "The client counting safe harbor, which let an adviser count a pooled entity rather than each investor as a single client, allowed advisers to manage large amounts of securities indirectly for several hundreds of investors across multiple hedge funds while remaining outside registration and supervision.",
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   "text": "Losing the private adviser exemption imposed a bundle of obligations, disclosure duties and code of ethics requirements on top of inspections and record keeping, and the direct consequence was significantly higher legal fees for hedge funds.",
   "abstract": "Without the private adviser exemption, hedge funds were also faced with disclosure requirements62 and code of ethics requirements63 resulting in significantly higher legal fees.",
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