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HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETIETH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 1659

A BILL TO AMEND THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF
1940, AS AMENDED, AND THE INVESTMENT ADVISERS
ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED, TO DEFINE THE EQUITABLE
STANDARDS GOVERNING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN IN-
VESTMENT COMPANIES AND THEIR INVESTMENT ADVIS-
ERS AND PRINCIPAL UNDERWRITERS, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES

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COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY

JOHN SPARKMAN, Alabama, Chairman

WILLIAM PROXMIRE, Wisconsin

WALLACE F. BENNETT, Utah

HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey JOHN G. TOWER, Texas

EDMUND S. MUSKIE, Maine

EDWARD V. LONG, Missouri

THOMAS J. MCINTYRE, New Hampshire

WALTER F. MONDALE, Minnesota
GALE W. MCGEE, Wyoming

WILLIAM B. SPONG, JR., Virginia

BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER, Iowa
EDWARD W. BROOKE, Massachusetts
CHARLES H. PERCY, Illinois

LEWIS G. ODOM, Jr., Staff Director and General Counsel
STEPHEN J. PARADISE, Assistant Counsel

JOHN R. EVANS, Minority Staff Director

II

CONTENTS

(The same table of contents appears in both parts 1 and 2)

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Manuel F. Cohen, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; accompanied by Philip A. Loomis, Jr., General Counsel.

TUESDAY, AUgust 1

Francis S. Williams, chairman, board of governors, Investment Company
Institute; Joseph E. Welch, member, executive committee and chairman
of Federal Legislative Committee; John E. Haire, chairman, SEC rules
committee; Robert L. Augenblick, president, Investment Company
Institute; accompanied by: Robert J. Fahey, Arthur D. Little Inc.;
Jesse Markham, professor of economics, Princeton University; Ralph
E. Demmler, attorney-.

Father Gervase J. Soukup, O.S.B., professor of economics, St. John's
University, Collegeville, Minn..

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2

Prof. Paul A. Samuelson, institute professor, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology-

Cornelius Roach, chairman, Association of Mutual Fund Plan Sponsors,
Inc.; accompanied by J. Edward Day, former Postmaster General of
the United States; John D. Case, president, First Investors Corp.;
John H. Kostmayer, vice president, First Investors Corp.; and Raymond
Grant, executive vice president, Investors Planning Corp. of America__

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3

Robert M. Gardiner, chairman, Board of Governors, National Association
of Securities Dealers; accompanied by Robert L. Cody, chairman,
Investment Companies Committee; S. Whitney Bradley, governor-at-
large; Ray Moulden, director, Investment Companies Department;
James Ratzlaff, secretary, Investment Companies Committee; Lloyd
Derrickson, general counsel; and Ralph Burgess, chief economist..
H. Lawrence Bogert, president, Investment Bankers Association; ac-
companied by Donald T. Regan, vice president for governmental rela-
tions; Gordon L. Calvert, executive director and general counsel;
Rucker Agee, member, board of governors; W. Bruce McConnel, Jr.,
chairman, Federal Securities Acts Committee; and Franklin R. Johnson,
chairman, Investment Companies Committee.

James E. Day, president, Midwest Stock Exchange; accompanied by
Scott Davis, chairman of the board; Frank Rothing, senior vice presi-
dent; John G. Weithers, vice president and secretary of the Midwest
Stock Exchange; and Joseph N. Morency, Jr., legal counsel, Midwest
Stock Exchange and partner of the firm of Spray, Price, Hough &
Cushman..

Frederick Moss, president, Boston Stock Exchange

2

186

269

347

372

549

605

642

658

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4

Irwin Friend, professor of finance, Wharton School of Finance & Commerce, University of Pennsylvania...

Page

665

Abraham L. Pomerantz, attorney, New York City...

689

Richard W. Jennings, professor of law, University of California Law
School, Berkeley, Calif.

709

Edward S. Herman, professor, Wharton School of Finance & Commerce,
University of Pennsylvania..

722

MONDAY, AUGUST 14

G. Keith Funston, president; accompanied by Gustave L. Levy, chairman of the board of governors, and Donald L. Calvin, vice president, New York Stock Exchange..

Robert M. Loeffler, vice president; accompanied by Joseph F. Grinnell,
general counsel, Investors Diversified Services, Inc..

Robert A. James, president, Raymond James & Associates, St. Petersburg,
Fla.; representing the Florida Security Dealers Association...
Victor H. Polk, executive vice president, Mutual Funds Advisory, Inc....
Ernest Kosek, president, Ernest Kosek & Co....

733

755

782

784

787

Dedrick Brittenum, Brittenum & Associates, Inc., Memphis, Tenn...

Murray L. Simpson, executive vice president and general counsel, William
Jennings & Co., Inc..

791

800

TUESDAY, AUGUST 15

Harry W. Besse, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, general partner in Hutchins, Mixter & Parkinson; accompanied by Turner Hogan, attorney, National Economic Development Group, Chamber of Commerce of the United States..

Thomas A. Martin, president; accompanied by Enno W. Ercklentz, vice
president and general counsel, and Robert A. Myers, vice president
for public relations, Channing Co., Inc.--.

James D. Fullerton, vice president, Investment Co. of America..
Jacob K. Javits, U.S. Senator, New York..

H. Dean Quinby, Jr.; accompanied by Elton J. Burgett, Quinby Co...
Wilfred Godfrey, chairman and president, Keystone Custodian Funds,
Inc__.

Ronald T. Lyman, Jr., vice president, Investment Counsel Sponsored
No-Load Funds; accompanied by Harry H. Hagey, partner, Stein
Roe & Farnham, and Milton H. Cohen, counsel...
Charles W. Steadman, chairman of the board and president, Steadman
Security Corp., Washington, D.C.; accompanied by Allen Baxter,
chief legal officer, and Walter M. Fisher, executive vice president and
director of sales..

Milton Mound, president, First Multifund of America, Inc.; accompanied
by Henry A. Greenburg, attorney, Mound, Belfer & Greenburg..
Anthony R. Tyrone, president, Hamilton Management Corp.....

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Agee, Rucker, member, Board of Governors, Investment Bankers Association_.

808

816

824

845

845

855

863

872

882

892

605

Augenblick, Robert L., president, Investment Company Institute.
Baxter, Allen, chief legal officer, Steadman Security Corp..
Besse, Harry W., Chamber of Commerce of the United States.

186, 307

872

808

Bogert, H. Lawrence, president, Investment Bankers Association...

605, 621

Bradley, S. Whitney, governor-at-large, National Association of Securities
Dealers..

549

Brittenum, Dedrick, Brittenum & Associates, Inc.

800

Burgess, Ralph, chief economist, National Association of Securities
Dealers..

549

Burgett, Elton J., Quinby Plan.

845

Calvert, Gordon L., executive director and general counsel, Investment
Bankers Association__.

605

Calvin, Donald L., vice president, New York Stock Exchange_

733

Case, John D., president, First Investors Corp.

372

Cody, Robert L., chairman, Investment Companies Committee, National
Association of Securities Dealers..

Cohen, Manuel F., Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission...........
Cohen, Milton H., counsel, Investment Counsel Sponsored No-Load
Funds...

Davis, Scott, chairman of the board, Midwest Stock Exchange.
Day, James E., president, Midwest Stock Exchange..
Day, J. Edward, former Postmaster General of the United States..
Demmler, Ralph E., attorney...

Page

549

2

863

642

642, 654

372

186, 337

549

Derrickson, Lloyd, general counsel, National Association of Securities
Dealers...

Ercklentz, Enno W., vice president and general counsel, Channing Co., Inc. 816
Fahey, Robert J., Arthur D. Little, Inc.

186, 328

Fischer, Walter M., executive vice president and director of sales, Steadman
Security Corp----

872

Friend, Irwin, professor of finance, Wharton School of Finance & Commerce, University of Pennsylvania-

665, 682

Fullerton, James D., vice president, Investment Co. of America_
Funston, G. Keith, president, New York Stock Exchange.--

824, 830

733, 749

Gardiner, Robert M., chairman, Board of Governors, National Association of Securities Dealers__.

549

Godfrey, Wilfred, chairman and president, Keystone Custodian Funds,
Inc.

855, 860

Grant, Raymond, executive vice president, Investors Planning Corp. of
America

372

Hogan, Turner, National Economic Development Group, Chamber of
Commerce of the United States____.

James, Robert A., president, Raymond James & Associates, representing the
Florida Security Dealers Association..

Greenburg, Henry A., attorney, Mound, Belfer & Greenburg__
Grinnell, Joseph F., general counsel, Investors Diversified Services, Inc. -
Hagey, Harry H., Investment Counsel Sponsored No-Load Funds..
Haire, John E., chairman, SEC Rules Committee, Investment Co.

Institute.

Herman, Edward, Prof., Wharton School of Finance & Commerce, University of Pennsylvania.

882 755

863

186, 302

722, 728

808

782

Javits, Jacob K., U.S. Senator from the State of New York_

845

Jennings, Richard W., professor of law, University of California Law
School, Berkeley, Calif

709, 719

Johnson, Franklin R., chairman, Investment Companies Committee, Investment Bankers Association__.

605

Kosek, Ernest, president, Ernest Kosek & Co...

Kostmayer, John H., vice president, First Investors Corp.

787

372

Levy, Gustave L., chairman of the Board of Governors, New York Stock
Exchange...

733

Loeffler, Robert M., vice president, Investors Diversified Services, Inc. 755, 771 Loomis, Philip A., Jr., General Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission

Lyman, Ronald T., Jr., vice president, Investment Counsel Sponsored No-
Load Funds..

2

863

McConnel, W. Bruce, Jr., chairman, Federal Securities Acts Committee,
Investment Bankers Association..

605

Markham, Jesse, professor of economics, Princeton University.
Martin, Thomas A., president, Channing Co., Inc.

186, 336

816

Morency, Joseph N., Jr., legal counsel, Midwest Stock Exchange.
Moss, Frederick, president, Boston Stock Exchange-

642

658

Moulden, Ray, director, Investment Companies Department, National
Association of Securities Dealers.

549

Mound, Milton, president, First Multifund of America, Inc.

882

Myers, Robert A., vice president for public relations, Channing Co., Inc.-
Polk, Victor H., executive vice president, Mutual Funds Advisory, Inc.--
Pomerantz, Abraham L., attorney.

816

784

689, 704

Quinby, H. Dean, Jr., Quinby Plan.

845

Ratzlaff, James, secretary, Investment Companies Committee, National
Association of Securities Dealers---.

549

Regan, Donald T., vice president for governmental relations, Investment
Bankers Association___

605

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