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Leaving Money On The Table: Do Institutional Investors Fail To File Claims In Securities Class Actions?, Randall Thomas, James D. Cox
Leaving Money On The Table: Do Institutional Investors Fail To File Claims In Securities Class Actions?, Randall Thomas, James D. Cox
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In this paper, we examine the role of institutional investors in securities fraud class actions. We begin by surveying the first five years of experience with the Lead Plaintiff provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA). In particular, we look at those cases where the lead plaintiff position has been contested and the outcome of those disputes. We find that institutional investors have been very successful in obtaining the position of lead plaintiff where they have sought it, but that there are a number of cases where they were unsuccessful. In part two of the paper, we dissect …