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   "text": "Disclosing otherwise private and proprietary Form PF systemic risk data exclusively to bankruptcy judges could alleviate the hedge fund industry's concerns about privacy and about the reverse engineering of its strategies and positions.",
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   "text": "The private fund industry's central fear about Form PF was not the filing itself but eventual publicity: if the disclosures ever became public, competitors could reverse engineer fund strategies and largely eliminate managers' ability to generate absolute returns.",
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