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Bucking The Trend: The Unsupportability Of Index Providers' Imposition Of Licensing Fees For Unlisted Trading Of Exchange Traded Funds, Peter N. Hall
Bucking The Trend: The Unsupportability Of Index Providers' Imposition Of Licensing Fees For Unlisted Trading Of Exchange Traded Funds, Peter N. Hall
Vanderbilt Law Review
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are popular investment products that have recently generated substantial investment press, several new regulations, huge earnings for the securities markets, and potential legal conflicts that will likely lead to major litigation. ETFs are derivative securities that represent ownership in funds, unit investment trusts, or depositary receipts with portfolios of securities designed to track the performance and dividends of specific securities indices.' ETFs track indices by holding a representative sampling of securities in the index, thus approximating investment results of the index as a whole. They may or may not hold all the stocks in a particular …