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The Challenge Of Fiduciary Regulation: The Investment Advisors Act After Seventy-Five Years, Roberta S. Karmel Jan 2016

The Challenge Of Fiduciary Regulation: The Investment Advisors Act After Seventy-Five Years, Roberta S. Karmel

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

Seventy-five years after its enactment the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 has advanced from a relatively weak statute merely registering advisers with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to a more robust law imposing fiduciary responsibilities on advisers. Over the years, the number of investment advisers and the number of their clients have increased greatly. The SEC therefore has been pressured by Congress to develop a harmonized fiduciary standard for broker-dealers and advisers and also to develop and enforce a greater degree of oversight over the advisory industry. These developments have raised the questions of how to fund such efforts …


Corporate Filings In Ohio: A Procedural Guide, Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr., John J. Biancamano Jan 1980

Corporate Filings In Ohio: A Procedural Guide, Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr., John J. Biancamano

Cleveland State Law Review

The office of the Secretary of State is the official repository for records relating to profit and non-profit Ohio corporations, foreign corporations licensed to transact business in this state and a number of other business related filings. Procedures for most filings with the Secretary of State are spelled out in various chapters of the Ohio Revised Code and forms for many of the transactions are readily available. Nevertheless, more than ten percent of the documents submitted for filing in 1980 were rejected for failure to comply with Code requirements. The rejection of a document causes obvious problems for the filing …


Corporations - Non-Profit Corporations - Power Of Court Of Equity To Preserve Original Purposes And Set-Up Of Such A Corporation, W. Wallace Kent Jan 1940

Corporations - Non-Profit Corporations - Power Of Court Of Equity To Preserve Original Purposes And Set-Up Of Such A Corporation, W. Wallace Kent

Michigan Law Review

The Osteopathic Hospital was incorporated in 1919 as a nonprofit corporation by five persons who subscribed funds for its support. Its articles provided that the qualifications for trustees, method of filling vacancies in the board of trustees and the manner in which persons could become members should be set out in the by-laws to be adopted by the original incorporators. The by-laws thus adopted provided for a self-perpetuating board of trustees with power in them to amend the by-laws. These by-laws were not questioned until January 20, 1938, when a group of the members attempted to amend the by-laws to …


Municipal Corporations-Constitutionality Of Municipal Debt Readjustment Act Jan 1936

Municipal Corporations-Constitutionality Of Municipal Debt Readjustment Act

Michigan Law Review

To avail itself of the remedial provisions of the National Bankruptcy Act as amended by section 80, the Imperial Irrigation District, a taxing district within the State of California, filed a petition for the readjustment of its debts. Pursuant to the requirements of section 80 the petition alleged that the District was unable to meet its debts and that a plan of readjustment had been accepted by 87.31 per cent of the creditors. Contestants, owners of petitioners' bonds, intervened. Held, section 80 of the National Bankruptcy Act as applied to the readjustment of the debts of an irrigation district …