This paper addresses one of the key issues – the foreseeability of the housing market downturn that began in September of 2007 and intensified in the fourth quarter of 2007 – that must be addressed in assessing the extensive securities class action litigation that has been filed against...

In this paper we will present and discuss four different methodologies for calculating ERISA damages — what we will label the “best-performing fund,” “portfolio redistribution,” “most similar fund,” and “10b-5 style” ERISA damage methods. For purposes of demonstrating how these...