Word: barbash
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...Some experts, prior to the Madoff mega-swindle, were all for lesser regulation. But now they are rethinking this idea. "Registration of these funds might have helped prevent this," says Barry Barbash, a Washington-based securities lawyer with Wilkie Farr & Gallagher. Barbash was the SEC director of investment management from 1993 to 1998, the time the liberalization took place...
...study showed Barbash and others in the Clinton Administration that there was a need for liberalization for hedge funds. "There was a greater appetite for them, and the 100-person rule was too narrow," says Barbash. "The philosophy was that we needed to cut regulation for larger, more sophisticated investors...
...sure it would have helped stop this crime, but earlier transparency, or registration for the sponsor group [feeder fund] has a logic to it now," says Barbash. "Certainly, I think greater protection would have come if Madoff was forced to register...
...September 11, HarperCollins will publish "On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald and 9/11" by Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of the brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald, and Tom Barbash. Cantor Fitzerald suffered the largest number of casualties in the September 11 attacks. According to the publisher, "every member of Lutnick's young firm who was in the office that morning - nearly 700 traders and salespeople, lawyers and accountants, 164 of his partners, including his brother Gary and his best friend Doug - perished in the North Tower." The book details how the surviving employees have been able to keep the company...