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Protecting The Investor In The Promotional Operations Of Financial Products: An Analytical Study Within The Framework Of The Legislation Of The Securities And Commodities Market Authority In The United Arab Emirates, Rasha Hattab Dr., Ahmed Qasim Farah Dr
Protecting The Investor In The Promotional Operations Of Financial Products: An Analytical Study Within The Framework Of The Legislation Of The Securities And Commodities Market Authority In The United Arab Emirates, Rasha Hattab Dr., Ahmed Qasim Farah Dr
مجلة جامعة الإمارات للبحوث القانونية UAEU LAW JOURNAL
The Decision of the Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority No. (3/R. M) of 2017 concerning the Regulation of Promotion and Introduction Activities represent an important stage in the development of the regulatory regime of promotion of financial products in the UAE. This Decision complete the previous Decision No. (9/R. M) of 2016 concerning Mutual Funds which determinates the conditions for the promotion of Foreign investment Funds. The main problematic of this study is to determine whether the legal rules governing the promotion of financial products in UAE legislation provide adequate protection to the targeted investors. Several other problematics are related …
Unequal Investment: A Regulatory Case Study, Emily R. Winston
Unequal Investment: A Regulatory Case Study, Emily R. Winston
Faculty Publications
Growing economic inequality in the United States has reduced social mobility, placing financial security farther out of reach for a growing number of Americans. During the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. stock prices have grown simultaneously with unemployment and food insecurity, highlighting the fact that prosperity is unequally distributed in the U.S. economy.
Many Americans do not benefit when the stock market soars because they do not have the means to invest. However, even ordinary American families who do have wealth to invest in the capital markets will face enormous obstacles in narrowing the wealth divide through investment. This is because ordinary …
The Breakdown Of The Public–Private Divide In Securities Law: Causes, Consequences, And Reforms, George S. Georgiev
The Breakdown Of The Public–Private Divide In Securities Law: Causes, Consequences, And Reforms, George S. Georgiev
Faculty Articles
As a regulatory scheme, U.S. securities law has traditionally been designed around a set of lines—the “public–private divide”—which separate public companies, public capital, and public markets, from private companies, private capital, and private markets. Until the early 2000s, the lines were successful in establishing two largely coherent legal realms—a highly regulated public realm and a lightly regulated private realm. A series of bold and often-inconsistent reforms between 2002 and 2020, however, have transformed this longstanding regime into a low-friction system wherein public capital flows to both public and private companies, private capital is ever more abundant, and firms can effectively …
Theory, Evidence, And Policy On Dual-Class Shares: A Country-Specific Response To A Global Debate, Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez
Theory, Evidence, And Policy On Dual-Class Shares: A Country-Specific Response To A Global Debate, Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Dual-class shares have become one of the most controversial issues in today´s capital markets and corporate governance debates around the world. Namely, it is not clear whether companies should be allowed to go public with dual-class shares and, if so, which restrictions (if any) should be imposed. Three primary regulatory models have been adopted to deal with dual-class shares: (i) prohibitions, existing in countries like the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Colombia, or Argentina; (ii) the permissive model adopted in several jurisdictions, including Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands, and particularly the United States; and (iii) the restrictive approach recently implemented in Hong …
Protecting The Investor In The Promotional Operations Of Financial Products: An Analytical Study Within The Framework Of The Legislation Of The Securities And Commodities Market Authority In The United Arab Emirates, Dr. Rasha Hattab, Dr. Ahmed Qasim Farah
Protecting The Investor In The Promotional Operations Of Financial Products: An Analytical Study Within The Framework Of The Legislation Of The Securities And Commodities Market Authority In The United Arab Emirates, Dr. Rasha Hattab, Dr. Ahmed Qasim Farah
UAEU Law Journal
The Decision of the Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority No. (3/R. M) of 2017 concerning the Regulation of Promotion and Introduction Activities represent an important stage in the development of the regulatory regime of promotion of financial products in the UAE. This Decision complete the previous Decision No. (9/R. M) of 2016 concerning Mutual Funds which determinates the conditions for the promotion of Foreign investment Funds. The main problematic of this study is to determine whether the legal rules governing the promotion of financial products in UAE legislation provide adequate protection to the targeted investors. Several other problematics are related …
The Regulation Of Equity Index Futures, Lin (Lynn) Bai
The Regulation Of Equity Index Futures, Lin (Lynn) Bai
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
Equity index futures are one of the most actively traded derivative instruments in financial markets around the world. Advancements in trading and clearing technologies transformed the marketplace over the past two decades. Regulation drastically changed to keep pace with the market’s development. New rules have been implemented covering trading activities, risk management, market surveillance, and customer protection. Legal literature on the regulation of this important financial instrument is surprisingly antiquated. Existing papers were written decades ago and do not reflect the true metes and bounds of today’s regulatory landscape. This paper fills the void. It provides a comprehensive discussion of …
Theory, Evidence And Policy On Dual-Class Shares: A Country-Specific Response To A Global Debate, Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez
Theory, Evidence And Policy On Dual-Class Shares: A Country-Specific Response To A Global Debate, Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Dual-class shares have become one of the most controversial issues in today´s capital markets and corporate governance debates around the world. Namely, it is not clear whether companies should be allowed to go public with dual-class shares and, if so, which restrictions (if any) should be imposed. Three primary regulatory models have been adopted to deal with dual-class shares: (i) prohibitions, existing in countries like the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Colombia, or Argentina; (ii) the permissive model adopted in several jurisdictions, including Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands, and particularly the United States; and (iii) the restrictive approach recently implemented in Hong …
The $7 Trillion Question: Mutual Funds & Investor Welfare - Alternative Structures And Strategies For Investors, Richard A. Booth, Michael Degeorge, Joseph Hardiman, Henry Hu
The $7 Trillion Question: Mutual Funds & Investor Welfare - Alternative Structures And Strategies For Investors, Richard A. Booth, Michael Degeorge, Joseph Hardiman, Henry Hu
Richard A Booth
No abstract provided.
Protecting Mutual Fund Investors: An Inevitable Eclecticism, Lyman P. Q. Johnson
Protecting Mutual Fund Investors: An Inevitable Eclecticism, Lyman P. Q. Johnson
Lyman P. Q. Johnson
The Moral Undercurrent Beneath The Regulatory Regime Of Investor Protection, Huhnkie Lee
The Moral Undercurrent Beneath The Regulatory Regime Of Investor Protection, Huhnkie Lee
Huhnkie Lee
No abstract provided.
East Asia, Investment, And International Law: Distinctive Or Convergent?, Beth A. Simmons
East Asia, Investment, And International Law: Distinctive Or Convergent?, Beth A. Simmons
All Faculty Scholarship
International investment agreements (IIAs) are the primary legal instruments designed to protect and encourage foreign direct investment world-wide. This article argues that Asia has used IIAs just as much as have other regions of the world to attract foreign direct investment, but that Asia’s pattern of agreement provisions is somewhat distinctive. States in East and Southeast Asia have tended to enter into agreements that strike a balance somewhat more favorable to host states than to foreign firms, at least when compared to the rest of the world. This may be due to high growth in the region, which tends to …
Prestazione Di Servizi Di Investimento, Valerio Sangiovanni
Prestazione Di Servizi Di Investimento, Valerio Sangiovanni
Valerio Sangiovanni
No abstract provided.
Janus Capital Group, Inc. V. First Derivative Traders: The Culmination Of The Supreme Court’S Evolution From Liberal To Reactionary In Rule 10b-5 Actions, Charles W. Murdock
Janus Capital Group, Inc. V. First Derivative Traders: The Culmination Of The Supreme Court’S Evolution From Liberal To Reactionary In Rule 10b-5 Actions, Charles W. Murdock
Charles W. Murdock
“Political” decisions such as Citizens United and National Federation of Independent Business (“Obamacare”) reflect the reactionary bent of several Supreme Court justices. But this reactionary trend is discernible in other areas as well. With regard to Rule 10b-5, the Court has handed down a series of decisions that could be grouped into four trilogies. The article examines the trend over the past 40 years which has become increasingly conservative and finally reactionary.
The first trilogy was a liberal one, arguably overextending the scope of Rule 10b-5. This was followed by a conservative trilogy which put a brake on such extension, …
Behavioral Economics And Investor Protection: Reasonable Investors, Efficient Markets, Barbara Black
Behavioral Economics And Investor Protection: Reasonable Investors, Efficient Markets, Barbara Black
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
The judicial view of a “reasonable investor” plays an important role in federal securities regulation, and courts express great confidence in the reasonable investor’s cognitive abilities. Behavioral economists, by contrast, do not observe real people investing in today’s markets behaving as the reasonable investors that federal securities law expects them to be. Similarly, the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) has exerted a powerful influence in securities regulation, although empirical evidence calls into question some of the basic assumptions underlying EMH. Unfortunately, to date, courts have only acknowledged the discrepancy between legal theory and behavioral economics in one situation, class certification of …
Keep It Light, Chairman White: Sec Rulemaking Under The Crowdfund Act, Andrew A. Schwartz
Keep It Light, Chairman White: Sec Rulemaking Under The Crowdfund Act, Andrew A. Schwartz
Publications
Title III of the JOBS Act, known as the CROWDFUND Act, authorizes the “crowdfunding” of securities, defined as raising capital online from many investors, each of whom contributes only a small amount. The Act was signed into law in April 2012, and will go into effect once the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) promulgates rules and regulations to govern the new marketplace for crowdfunded securities. This Essay offers friendly advice to the SEC as to how to exercise its rulemaking authority in a manner that will enable the Act to achieve its goals of creating an ultralow-cost method for raising …
Product Due Diligence And The Suitability Of Minibonds: Taking The Benefit Of Hindsight, Christopher Chao-Hung Chen
Product Due Diligence And The Suitability Of Minibonds: Taking The Benefit Of Hindsight, Christopher Chao-Hung Chen
Christopher Chao-hung Chen
This article focuses on some problems arising from applying the product due diligence requirement of the suitability rule to complex financial products. The article draws several conclusions. First, the ‘not unsuitable’ test should be adopted to reduce legal uncertainty. Second, the comparative risk approach is a better choice in assessing the suitability of investment products. However, there must be further elaboration of the classification of product risk. Third, there must be a balance between risk and return to avoid risk mismatches in product design. Fourth, what have been termed minibonds raise the problem of documentation suitability. Though it is difficult …
Structured Notes Fiasco In The Courts: A Study Of Relevant Judgments In Taiwan Between 2009 And 2010, Christopher Chao-Hung Chen
Structured Notes Fiasco In The Courts: A Study Of Relevant Judgments In Taiwan Between 2009 And 2010, Christopher Chao-Hung Chen
Christopher Chao-hung CHEN
The purpose of this article is to analyse relevant judicial decisions in Taiwan regarding structured notes sold to retail investors. Regarding pre-sale disputes, one issue was that investors failed to read contractual documents properly before signing contracts, so there was a question whether they could later claim a bank’s violation of its duty to explain. This article favours the view that an investor’s signature may exempt a bank’s duty, provided that investors are made aware of relevant warnings. In addition, for suitability assessment, relevant judgments show that customers were too easily classified as active investors based on a simple questionnaire. …
Structured Notes Fiasco In The Courts: A Study Of Relevant Judgments In Taiwan Between 2009 And 2010, Christopher Chao-Hung Chen
Structured Notes Fiasco In The Courts: A Study Of Relevant Judgments In Taiwan Between 2009 And 2010, Christopher Chao-Hung Chen
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
The purpose of this article is to analyse relevant judicial decisions in Taiwan regarding structured notes sold to retail investors. Regarding pre-sale disputes, one issue was that investors failed to read contractual documents properly before signing contracts, so there was a question whether they could later claim a bank’s violation of its duty to explain. This article favours the view that an investor’s signature may exempt a bank’s duty, provided that investors are made aware of relevant warnings. In addition, for suitability assessment, relevant judgments show that customers were too easily classified as active investors based on a simple questionnaire. …
The Quest For Financial Regulatory Reform: Will A Uniform Fiduciary Standard Guide The Way?, Bonnie M. Treichel
The Quest For Financial Regulatory Reform: Will A Uniform Fiduciary Standard Guide The Way?, Bonnie M. Treichel
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law
No abstract provided.
A Behavioral Framework For Securities Risk, Tom C.W. Lin
A Behavioral Framework For Securities Risk, Tom C.W. Lin
UF Law Faculty Publications
This article provides the first critical analysis and redesign of the existing securities risk disclosure framework given new insights from the emerging, interdisciplinary field of behavioral economics. Disclosure is the principle at the heart of federal securities regulation. Beneath that core principle of disclosure is the basic assumption that the reasonable investor is the idealized über-rational person of neoclassical economic theory. Therefore, once armed with the requisite information investors presumably can protect themselves through rational choice. Descriptively, however, real investors are not like their rational, neoclassical kin. This article examines this incongruence between the idealized rational investor and the imperfect …
The Law And Economics Of Hedge Funds: Financial Innovation And Investor Protection, Houman B. Shadab
The Law And Economics Of Hedge Funds: Financial Innovation And Investor Protection, Houman B. Shadab
Articles & Chapters
A persistent theme underlying contemporary debates about financial regulation is how to protect investors from the growing complexity of financial markets, new risks, and other changes brought about by financial innovation. Increasingly relevant to this debate are the leading innovators of complex investment strategies known as hedge funds. A hedge fund is a private investment company that is not subject to the full range of restrictions on investment activities and disclosure obligations imposed by the federal securities laws, that compensates management in part with a fee based on annual profits, and typically engages in the active trading of financial instruments. …
Top Cop Or Regulatory Flop? The Sec At 75, Jill E. Fisch
Top Cop Or Regulatory Flop? The Sec At 75, Jill E. Fisch
All Faculty Scholarship
In their forthcoming article, Redesigning the SEC: Does the Treasury Have a Better Idea?, Professors John C. Coffee, Jr., and Hillary Sale offer compelling reasons to rethink the SEC’s role. This article extends that analysis, evaluating the SEC’s responsibility for the current financial crisis and its potential future role in regulation of the capital markets. In particular, the article identifies critical failures in the SEC’s performance in its core competencies of enforcement, financial transparency, and investor protection. The article argues that these failures are not the result, as suggested by the Treasury Department Blueprint, of a balkanized regulatory system. Rather, …
The Argentine Financial Crisis: State Liability Under Bits And The Legitimacy Of The Icsid System, William W. Burke-White
The Argentine Financial Crisis: State Liability Under Bits And The Legitimacy Of The Icsid System, William W. Burke-White
All Faculty Scholarship
This essay examines the jurisprudence of the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) arbitral tribunals in a series of cases brought against the Republic of Argentina in the wake of the 2001-2002 Argentine financial collapse. The essay considers the ICSID tribunals' treatment of non-precluded measures provisions in Argentina's bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and the customary law defense of necessity and argues that the ICSID tribunals have sought to radically narrow the opportunities available to states to craft policy responses to emergency situations while strengthening investor protections beyond the intent of the states parties to the BITs under …
Evaluating The Mission: A Critical Review Of The History And Evolution Of The Sec Enforcement Program, Paul S. Atkins, Bradley J. Bondi
Evaluating The Mission: A Critical Review Of The History And Evolution Of The Sec Enforcement Program, Paul S. Atkins, Bradley J. Bondi
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.
Approaching Comparative Company Law , David C. Donald
Approaching Comparative Company Law , David C. Donald
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.
Securities Regulation In Low-Tier Listing Venues: The Rise Of The Alternative Investment Market, Jose M. Mendoza
Securities Regulation In Low-Tier Listing Venues: The Rise Of The Alternative Investment Market, Jose M. Mendoza
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.
Fin Rah!...A Welcome Change: Why The Merger Was Necessary To Preserve U.S. Market Integrity, Yesenia Cervantes
Fin Rah!...A Welcome Change: Why The Merger Was Necessary To Preserve U.S. Market Integrity, Yesenia Cervantes
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.
The $7 Trillion Question: Mutual Funds & Investor Welfare - Fund Governance Going Forward, Diane Ambler, John C. Bogle, William Foulk, James Hanks
The $7 Trillion Question: Mutual Funds & Investor Welfare - Fund Governance Going Forward, Diane Ambler, John C. Bogle, William Foulk, James Hanks
Journal of Business & Technology Law
No abstract provided.
The Martin Act: An Overview, Frank C. Razzano
The Martin Act: An Overview, Frank C. Razzano
Journal of Business & Technology Law
No abstract provided.
The $7 Trillion Question: Mutual Funds & Investor Welfare - Overview And Update, Margaret A. Bancroft, Jay G. Baris, Lisa Fairfax, Tamar Frankel
The $7 Trillion Question: Mutual Funds & Investor Welfare - Overview And Update, Margaret A. Bancroft, Jay G. Baris, Lisa Fairfax, Tamar Frankel
Journal of Business & Technology Law
No abstract provided.