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2013

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Investment Company As Instrument: The Limitations Of The Corporate Governance Regulatory Paradigm, Anita Krug Jan 2013

Investment Company As Instrument: The Limitations Of The Corporate Governance Regulatory Paradigm, Anita Krug

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U.S. regulation of public investment companies (such as mutual funds) is based on a notion that, from a governance perspective, investment companies are simply another type of business enterprise, not substantially different from companies that produce goods or provide (noninvestment) services. In other words, investment company regulation is founded on what this Article calls a “corporate governance paradigm,” in that it provides a significant regulatory role for boards of directors, as the traditional governance mechanism in business enterprises, and is “entity centric,” focusing on intraentity relationships to the exclusion of superentity ones. This Article argues that corporate governance norms, which …


A Theory Of Preferred Stock, William W. Bratton, Michael L. Wachter Jan 2013

A Theory Of Preferred Stock, William W. Bratton, Michael L. Wachter

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