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Morningstar to Oversight Council: Hands Off the Fund Industry

The Financial Stability Oversight Council, which was created by Dodd-Frank legislation in the aftermath of the 2008 subprime boondoggle to find ways to prevent another crisis, is apparently evaluating if regulations for fund industry are warranted, even though the industry didn’t cause the 2008 financial crisis. So writes Morningstar’s Scott Cooley, director of policy research at the firm.

Cooley maintains that limits on mutual funds’ use of leverage and other existing regulations make it highly unlikely that the industry could trigger another crisis, so classifying fund firms as systemically important financial institutions and imposing regulations that go along with the designation would be a mistake.

Read the full post from Morningstar's Cooley.

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