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Full-Text Articles in Law
Informing The Debate On Lowering The Criminal Rate Of Interest, Gail Henderson, Katlin Abrahamson
Informing The Debate On Lowering The Criminal Rate Of Interest, Gail Henderson, Katlin Abrahamson
Dalhousie Law Journal
Canada has two markets for consumer credit. Consumers with middle to high incomes can draw on ‘mainstream’ forms of credit at reasonable interest rates, such as lines of credit and credit cards issued by chartered banks. Consumers living on low to moderate incomes, who also may have a poor credit score or no credit history, often find themselves pushed to high-cost credit products, such as instalment loans issued by alternative financial services providers. The effective annual interest rate on instalment loans can run up to the maximum permitted under section 347 of the Criminal Code. Anything above this constitutes a …
Debt-For-Climate Swaps And Illicit Financial Flows: A Call For Caution In Designing Climate Finance Infrastructures, Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, Morris K. Odeh
Debt-For-Climate Swaps And Illicit Financial Flows: A Call For Caution In Designing Climate Finance Infrastructures, Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, Morris K. Odeh
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Ahead of COP28, there have been widespread calls for the adoption of 'debt-for nature' and 'debt-for-climate' swaps as an alternative climate finance system to address funding gaps in developing countries. Typically, these swaps involve a debtor country repurchasing its debt securities at substantial discounts or converting official bilateral debt into environmental assets, which enables more fiscal savings to be redirected toward conservation objectives. Unlike most climate finance instruments, these debt swaps avoid burdening countries in the Global South with additional unsustainable debt, thus allowing for a more effective response to the climate crisis without sacrificing spending on other development projects. …
International Investment Law And Climate Justice: The Search For A Just Green Investment Order, Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, Adebayo Majekolagbe
International Investment Law And Climate Justice: The Search For A Just Green Investment Order, Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, Adebayo Majekolagbe
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Efforts are underway to craft responses to the climate crisis within the international investment order. This Article highlights international investment law (“IIL”) and international climate law (“ICL”) as two basic governance contexts within which investment- related responses to climate change are being designed. There is, however, a multilevel—normative and institutional—dissonance between both regimes that makes for an asymmetric integration of the regimes at best, or worse still, the escalation of the injustices which have characterized both. While similar in their recognition of international investment as an important tool for responding to climate change, assumptions and approaches under both regimes are …
Quinquagenaries, Anthony Duggan
Quinquagenaries, Anthony Duggan
Dalhousie Law Journal
This article is part of a symposium to mark the 50th anniversary, or quinquagenary, of the Dalhousie Law Journal. The invitation to participate in the symposium asked authors to reflect on developments in their field over the past 50 years. My field is the law of secured transactions and, as it happens, the Canadian Personal Property Security Acts (PPSAs) are approaching their own quinquagenary. There have been numerous statutory and case law developments over the past 50 years, but one of the most remarkable turn of events is the influence the Canadian PPSAs have had on the reform of secured …
Responsible Investing: Access Denied, Keith Macmaster
Responsible Investing: Access Denied, Keith Macmaster
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Retail investors are increasingly demanding responsible investments as part of their portfolios. Retail investors also, generally, require the services of an advisor. This article argues that traditional mutual funds, while structurally able to provide responsible investments, have not provided responsible holdings to their mass affluent retail investing clientele. While institutional investors, and certain very wealthy retail investors, have a multitude of options to avail themselves of responsible investments, mass affluent retail investors have less of an ability to invest responsibly. Advisors and investors do not have access to the majority of responsible investments, nor are advisors adequately trained or properly …
Responsible Investing: Access Denied, Keith Macmaster
Responsible Investing: Access Denied, Keith Macmaster
LLM Theses
Retail investors are increasingly demanding responsible investments. Retail investors also require the services of an advisor. Many responsible funds may not be responsible. This is due to many factors, including incomplete disclosures, and lack of financialization of risks. The thesis shows that traditional mutual funds, while structurally able to provide responsible investments, have not provided responsible holdings to mass affluent clientele. Institutional investors, and wealthy retail investors, have options to avail themselves of responsible investments; mass affluent investors have less choice to invest responsibly. The thesis recommends enhanced material disclosures and financial valuation models to better identify responsible investments. Advisors …
Keeping Up With The Joneses: A Model Systemic Risk Reporting Regime For The Canadian Hedge Fund Industry, Andrew Mcgarva
Keeping Up With The Joneses: A Model Systemic Risk Reporting Regime For The Canadian Hedge Fund Industry, Andrew Mcgarva
Dalhousie Law Journal
The purpose of this paper is to suggest a regulatory model by which Canadian securities regulators may monitor the systemic risk contributed to by the Canadian hedge fundindustry The bases for this modelare recent regulatory reform initiatives adopted in the U.S. and Europe. There, securities regulators have adopted Form PF and AIFMD, respectively, to monitor the systemic risk contributed to by hedge funds. However, the features of those regimes are not necessarily appropriate for the Canadian industry. The appropriateness ofthe features of Form PFandAIFMD for the Canadian hedge fund industry is evaluated on two criteria: the average industry fund size, …
Principles, Prescriptions, And Polemics: Regulating Conflicts Of Interest In The Canadian Investment Fund Industry, Dan Awrey
Dalhousie Law Journal
Conflicts ofinterest permeate the Canadian investment fund industry. In response, securities regulators have promulgated National Instrument 81-107 Independent Review Committee for Investment Funds. In the view of securities regulators, NI 81-107 reflects a "principles-based" approach toward the regulation of conflicts of interest. This Article articulates a theoretical conception of principles-based securities regulation, one which transcends the formalism of the traditional "rules" versus "principles" debate to reveal a new regulatory paradigm. Thereafter, the author explores whether and to what extent NI 81-107 truly reflects this principlesbased paradigm, manifesting the potential to tap into its inherent wisdom while at the same time …