Investment Trusts and Investment Companies: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on S. 3580, a Bill to Provide for the Registration and Regulation of Investment Companies and Investment Advisers, and for Other Purposes. April 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, and 10, 1940, Part 3 |
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... important . Second , it is perhaps not too much to say that the disregard of fiduciary standards lies at the root of many investment - company problems . The fiduciary obligation of the management to stockhold- ers is too often violated ...
... important . Second , it is perhaps not too much to say that the disregard of fiduciary standards lies at the root of many investment - company problems . The fiduciary obligation of the management to stockhold- ers is too often violated ...
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... important because of the temptation which it affords to any person who might be dishonest to sell the corporation something that is not worth what he sells it for or to buy from the corporation some- thing that is more valuable than he ...
... important because of the temptation which it affords to any person who might be dishonest to sell the corporation something that is not worth what he sells it for or to buy from the corporation some- thing that is more valuable than he ...
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... important , too , is it not ? Mr. FULTON . The publicity is the most important feature . The third provision I had in mind is section 17 , on page 36 , which refers to the purchase and the sale of securities between the invest- ment ...
... important , too , is it not ? Mr. FULTON . The publicity is the most important feature . The third provision I had in mind is section 17 , on page 36 , which refers to the purchase and the sale of securities between the invest- ment ...
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... important points , they adver- tised they would be independent of investment - banker domination . And that was one of the most important points that they disregarded . One by one they scrapped these restrictions . It may not be fair to ...
... important points , they adver- tised they would be independent of investment - banker domination . And that was one of the most important points that they disregarded . One by one they scrapped these restrictions . It may not be fair to ...
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... important instance yet it is one of the most fantastic . Mr. Chairman , I should like to also have this chart in the record : Senator WAGNER ( Chairman of the subcommittee ) . The chart you ave heretofore been using , as well as that ...
... important instance yet it is one of the most fantastic . Mr. Chairman , I should like to also have this chart in the record : Senator WAGNER ( Chairman of the subcommittee ) . The chart you ave heretofore been using , as well as that ...
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Page 24 - Hearings may be public and may be held before the Commission, any member or members thereof, or any officer or officers of the Commission designated by it, and appropriate records thereof shall be kept.
Page 24 - System, notwithstanding that such rule or regulation may, after such act or omission, be amended or rescinded or be determined by judicial or other authority to be invalid for any reason.
Page 32 - ... (2) to obtain money or property by means of any untrue statement of a material fact or any omission to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in...
Page 643 - director " means any director of a corporation or any person performing similar functions with respect to any organization, whether incorporated or unincorporated.
Page 109 - ... as to make it necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors or consumers that the applicant be subject to the obligations, duties, and liabilities imposed in this title upon subsidiary companies of holding companies.
Page 109 - Public-utility company" means an electric utility company or a gas utility company. (6) "Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission. (7) "Holding company" means— (A) any company which directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote...
Page 31 - ... (1) any person who within ten years has been convicted of any felony or misdemeanor involving the purchase or sale of any security or arising out of such person's conduct as an underwriter, broker, dealer, or investment adviser...
Page 25 - ... and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof. All process in any such case may be served in the judicial district whereof such person is an inhabitant or wherever he may be found.
Page 25 - Commissioner, on the ground that the testimony or evidence (documentary or otherwise) required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture...
Page 244 - No provision of this title imposing any liability shall apply to any act done or omitted in good faith in conformity with any rule, regulation, or...