The Banque de France issued a Financial Stability Report dedicated to hedge funds, whose growing contribution to financial transactions has been drawing much attention. The compilation articles includes the views from Central Bank Governors Cristian Noyer, Axel Weber, Mario Draghi, and many other key players in the banking and financial system in order to further the debate on this issue.
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Articles:
 Hedge funds, credit risk transfer and financial stability
ROGER T. COLE, GREG FELDBERG, DAVID LYNCH, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 
 The evolution and regulation of hedge funds  
ANDREW CROCKETT, JPMorgan Chase International 
 Regulating hedge funds  
JÓN DANÍELSSON AND JEAN-PIERRE ZIGRAND, London School of Economics and Financial Markets Group 
 Hedge funds and financial stability  
MARIO DRAGHI, Financial Stability Forum and Banca d’Italia 
 Hedge funds and systemic risk  
ROGER FERGUSON AND DAVID LASTER, Swiss Re 
 Hedge fund replication strategies: implications for investors and regulators 
 
WILLIAM FUNG, London Business School, and
DAVID A. HSIEH, Duke University 
 Hedge funds and prime broker dealers: steps towards a “best practice proposal” 
PHILIPP M. HILDEBRAND, Swiss National Bank 
 Transparency requirements and hedge funds 
CALLUM MCCARTHY, UK Financial Services Authority 
 Risks and return of banking activities related to hedge funds 
 
JEAN-PIERRE MUSTIER, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, and 
ALAIN DUBOIS, Lyxor Asset Management 
 Indirect supervision of hedge funds  DANIÈLE NOUY
Commission bancaire (French Banking Commission) 
 Hedge funds: what are the main issues?  
CHRISTIAN NOYER, Banque de France 
 
 Monitoring hedge funds: a financial stability perspective  
LUCAS D. PAPADEMOS, European Central Bank 
 The world of hedge funds: prejudice and reality – The AMF’s contribution to the debate on alternative investment strategies  
MICHEL PRADA, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (French Securities Regulator) 
 Financial conditions, alternative asset management and political risks: trying to make sense of our times 
 RAGHURAM G. RAJAN, University of Chicago 
 Hedge funds in emerging markets  
WILLIAM A. RYBACK, Hong Kong Monetary Authority 
 Fund of hedge funds: origins, role and future  
PATRICK STEVENSON, Atlas Capital Limited 
 Hedge funds: a central bank perspective  
AXEL A. WEBER, Deutsche Bundesbank 
      
      
      
      
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