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Predictions, Projections, And Precautions: Conveying Cautionary Warnings In Corporate Forward-Looking Statements, Susanna Ripken Jan 2005

Predictions, Projections, And Precautions: Conveying Cautionary Warnings In Corporate Forward-Looking Statements, Susanna Ripken

Susanna K. Ripken

This article discusses the problems that are created when corporate insiders make public predictions about the future prospects of their business. Investors crave these types of forward-looking corporate disclosures because investors use them to make judgments about the future profitability of companies. Corporations, however, are often reluctant to make predictions and projections because sometimes the predictions fail to come true, and investors may then sue corporations for misleading the market. Congress enacted a controversial statutory safe harbor designed to encourage corporations to make forward-looking statements. The safe harbor immunizes corporations from liability so long as they include meaningful cautionary warnings …


El Fiduciario Como Accionista: A Propósito De La Resolución 820/2005 De La Inspección General De Justicia, Martin Paolantonio Jan 2005

El Fiduciario Como Accionista: A Propósito De La Resolución 820/2005 De La Inspección General De Justicia, Martin Paolantonio

Martin Paolantonio

Análisis crítico de la posición de la Inspección General de Justicia respecto del accionista fiduciario