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  PaulB - dont get too worked up over Hedge Fund managers. I am grateful for my conservative (little c) approach to financial planning and have not directly exposed my clients to these funds. There would be a knock on effect from a collapse of Hedge Funds into the wider market, true, and many institutional funds will have an element of hedge Funds within them, but it is not helpful to exaggerate the impact. The term 'hedge Funds' does cover a range of different approaches and each will be hit in different ways. I do expect though there to be problems emerging from that source and there are always winners and losers. I am sure that those that lost heavily in the surge gained on the falls or visa versa, that is life. take what you hear in the media with a pinch of salt.
  
  You have to remember PaulB that retail financial services were first regulated by free marketeer Mrs T in 1986. What is important is not necessarily more regulation, but getting the right regulation. A part of the problem was the way Brown changed the way banks were regulated from the Bank of England to a complex tri-partied arrangement and that has a great deal to do with our domestic crisis.

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