Singapore may tighten hedge-fund regulation

In secret sessions, ideas have been floated that will bring the city state more into line with neighbouring jurisdictions.

For a long time, Singapore has had a reputation of being a fairly easy place to set up a hedge fund in Asia. If a hedge-fund manager didn't want to jump through all the regulatory hoops imposed in Hong Kong, the Lion City represented a benign alternative location. That may be set to change.

Among the new measures that are understood to be possibilities within an enhanced regulatory regime in Singapore, there may be new categories titled 'retail fund managers' and ...