Your clients must exercise great care in selecting fiduciaries such as executors, trustees, and agents. These decisions may affect the client and the client's family members for many years. Decisions regarding the appropriate persons to select are, naturally, for your clients to make. However,...

This article reports the results of an empirical study of the effect of the new prudent investor rule on asset allocation by institutional trustees. Using federal banking data spanning 1986 through 1997, the authors find that, after adoption of the new prudent investor rule, institutional...

As investors seek to diversify their investment portfolios – moving beyond stocks and bonds, they have turned to the art investment fund (AIF) for potentially high returns with purportedly low risk. Such funds invest and seek returns by acquiring and selling high-end pieces of fine art for...

This article reports the results of an empirical study of the effect of the new prudent investor rule on asset allocation by institutional trustees. Using federal banking data spanning 1986 through 1997, the authors find that, after adoption of the new prudent investor rule, institutional...

The intersection between patent law and family law principles has the potential to create an irreconcilable conflict in the area of patent ownership. These two legal worlds operate by virtue of different statutory provisions of automatic vesting of title that appear to be unable to coexist....

The constant evolution of the ways to invest foreign capitals in the marketplace has urged the need for defining the boundaries of the notion of investment, provided that Article 25 of the ICSID Convention is silent on this point. Against this background, the question of whether the intangible...