HAVEL, Germany, May 18, SPA -- Finance ministers from the Group of Eight nations began arriving Friday at a resort outside Berlin to hammer out issues such as the influence of hedge funds and the weakening dollar. German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said that proposals for a so-called code of conduct regarding hedge funds _ international investment vehicles largely for the wealthy _ would dominate the talks. «We started the discussion just three months ago with the G7 meeting ... and I think, in the meantime, there is a broad support that it was absolutely right to shift this issue on the agenda,» he told reporters on the sidelines of the G-8 meeting.
