SEC's Birdthistle Weaves His Way Through Contentious House Hearing

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As the head of the SEC’s investment management division, William Birdthistle is spearheading rules that have raised the hackles of the most powerful companies in finance – hedge funds, private equity firms, mutual funds, brokerages and Wall Street banks, to name a few. So expectations were high that Republicans would hold his feet to the fire today when…