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Recently, several academic theories have expressed concern over the growth of index funds. Some have argued that the growth of index funds will afford the asset managers who provide them too much influence over the public companies they invest in, through increased voting power and engagement...
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We examine the governance role of delegated portfolio managers. In our model, investors decide how to allocate their wealth between passive funds, active funds, and private savings, and asset management fees are endogenously determined. Funds' ownership stakes and asset management fees determine...
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This Article offers a broad theory of what distinguishes investment funds from ordinary companies, with ramifications for how these funds are understood and regulated. The central claim is that investment funds (i.e., mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity funds and their cousins) are...
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The conventional wisdom in corporate law posits that private ordering has an important virtue: it allows firms to efficiently tailor governance terms to their particular needs. This virtue is routinely advanced to justify the largely “enabling” structure of U.S. corporate law, and to oppose...
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Recent evidences indicate that privatization leads to enormous benefits to society almost without undesirable costs …. However, stakeholders of privatization seem not to satisfy the resulting performance of privatized firms. Using data from 202 … companies up to 10 years and study costs and benefits of privatization. Privatization is followed by a 1.1-percentage …
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There are two main regulatory approaches in relation to private sale-of-control transactions. The ‘market rule' confers maximum freedom on a company's incumbent controller by enabling sale shares (hence control over the company) to any acquirer offering an acceptable price. This concept...
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This Article examines two “meta” issues raised by opponents of the SEC's proposal to provide shareholders with rights to place director candidates on the company's proxy materials. First, opponents argue that, even assuming proxy access is desirable in many circumstances, the existing...
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