Archive – The Advocate for Institutional Investors
2019
- open/close Fall 2019
- Labor's Capital: How institutional investors are the last line of defense against fraud
- Soaring CEO Pay: Are investors getting their money's worth?
- Keeping Investors Out of Court: The fight to lock out shareholders continues — with a new twist
- The Dutch Lead the Way: New legislation allows for American-style class action claims
- Environmental, Social & Governance Investing: Do shareholder ESG proposals represent a benefit or burden?
- Business Roundtable Does an About Face: Top CEOs reverse themselves on importance of shareholder primacy
- BLB&G Comes to Delaware: Announcing our new office in the heart of Wilmington
- open/close Fall 2018
- The SEC Under Attack: Two years of deregulation is leaving a mark
- It's All About Relationships: Increasing interconnections between accounting firms and clients lead to errors and conflicts of interest
- From Kennedy to Kavanaugh: Where will the new Supreme Court Justice stand on issues affecting institutional investors?
- Keeping Investors Out of Court: Mandatory arbitration clauses threaten investor rights
- Seeking Justice Outside the United States: Recent Fortis decision in Dutch Court is a victory for US shareholders
- open/close Winter 2018
- Toward a Brighter Future: Fox News shareholders achieve landmark workplace reforms
- Enforcement, or Appeasement? Regulatory agencies curtail their oversight role in the first year of the Trump administration
- Supreme Court Roundup: Three cases before the High Court and their implications for investors
- Class Actions Promote Honesty and Integrity in Corporate America: Recent studies show that private securities litigation deters fraud
- Report from the Delaware Courts: The Shifting Meaning of “Fair Value” - Recent rulings and reversals may prevent investors from getting a fair deal in acquisitions
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Highlights of Jesse Eisinger Webcast - The Rise of Corporate Impunity
- open/close Summer 2017
- One Share, No Vote: A rising tide of multi-class shares erodes crucial shareholder rights
- Partnering for the Public Good: Using the private sector to strengthen the SEC
- Friend or Foe?: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and securities litigation
- First on the House Agenda - Raise the Bar on Class Actions: House of Representatives moves quickly to curtail victims' rights
- Prospectus Liability in Europe: A survey of recent developments
- open/close Summer 2016
- "If you ain't Cheating, you ain't Trying!" How Big Finance Continues to Pull the Strings on Global Markets
- Supreme Court Roundup: A Look at Three of the Court's Recent Decisions and Current Cases and Their Impact on Investors
- Time Flies for Individual Claims: With the Class Action "Tolling" Doctrine in Jeopardy, Institutional Investors Face New Challenges.
- All Eyes on the UK: High Impact Cases Work Their Way Through the London High Court
- The Only Game in Town: Mandatory Arbitration Clauses Severely Restrict Investors' Recovery Options
- open/close Summer 2015
- The Resurgence of the Activist Investor: Investors are Challenging Entrenched Corporate Boards - and Winning
- Dispatches from the Battleground: Will Fee-Shifting Bylaws Keep Shareholders from the Courthouse?
- Sharing Wall Street Style: Second Circuit Narrows Definition of Insider Trading
- Forging Ahead on Multiple Fronts: From "Broken Windows" Enforcement to Innovative Technologies, the SEC Pursues Several Strategic Initiatives Amid Fractured Leadership
- A Matter of Opinion?: The Omnicare Decision Will Make it Harder for IPO Issuers to Mask Misrepresentations as Opinion Statements
- open/close Fall 2014
- Trading at the Speed of Light: A Look at the Origins of High-Frequency Trading and How it Overtook the Market
- Picking Investors' Pockets: SEC Scrutiny of Private Equity Firms Reveals Widespread Abuses
- New Barriers to Shareholder Litigation: Corporations Adopt Fee-Shifting Bylaws in Effort to Undermine Shareholder Rights
- IndyMac Litigation Update: US Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal
- International Shareholder Litigation: Comparing Outlooks in the US and UK
- open/close Summer 2014
- Halliburton II: A Triumph for Investors' Rights and Market Integrity
- Financial Crisis: Why Wall Street Escaped Criminal Prosecutions
- The Deal Professor: A Conversation with NY Times Columnist Steven M. Davidoff
- VEB v. Deloitte: Class Action Developments in the Netherlands
- open/close Fall 2013
- More Bite, Less Bark at the SEC?: With Fewer No-Admit Settlements, Enforcement May Be Getting New Teeth
- Social Media and Cyber Security Risk: The Tricky Business of Managing Corporate Disclosures in the Information Age
- 10b5-1 Trading Plans: Pressure Mounts for Reforms to Curb Insider Trading
- M&A Litigation and the Institutional Investor Factor: As Lead Plaintiffs, Does Their Leadership Make a Difference?
- Listed in America: How Investors Respond When Foreign Firms on U.S. Exchanges are Sued for Financial Fraud
- open/close Spring 2013
- Unfinished Business: What's in Store for Financial Reform in the Next Term
- A Conversation with Harvey Pitt: Former SEC Chair Reflects on the Agency
- Holding Accountants Accountable: Can Private Litigation Force Auditing Reforms
- Trouble After the RMBS Bubble: Banks Face a Flood of Civil Litigation
- Up Against Big Banks, SEC Settles for Less: Banks Have Little to Fear from Weak Enforcement
- Lessons from London: Boardroom Failures Spur Corporate Governance Reforms
- Sea Change in the English Courts: Reforms to Litigation Funding in the Wake of the Jackson Report
- Europe Set to Limit Bank Bonuses
- open/close Summer 2012
- Locked Out: The Carlyle Group Tries to Bar Investors from Court
- Martin Act Interpreted: More Options Available for Private Claims
- "Rakoff Fever" Sweeps the Federal Bench: Courts Challenge SEC's No-Admit Settlements
- Goldman Cited for Conflicts of Interest: Chancery Court Issues Landmark Ruling in El Paso
- Converium/SCOR: Dutch Court Further Opens the Door for International Securities Fraud Settlements
- European Institutions Take Leading Roles in U.S. Securities Litigation
- open/close Fall 2011
- Government Goes After Insider Trading
- Dodd-Frank One Year Later...and Still Waiting
- The Myth of Director Liability: Little Risk for Those at the Top
- Institutional Investors From Around the World Turn to Direct Suits in U.S.
- open/close Spring 2011
- Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Challenge? As Wall Street Outmaneuvers the Government, Institutional Investors Fill the Void
- Rebalancing the System - Institutional Investors Fight for Corporate Governance Reform
- How Did We Get Here? Too Much Regulatory Oversight or Not Enough?
- The Battle to Restore Investor Rights in an Increasingly Global Economy
- open/close Fall 2010
- Keeping Corporate America Honest: The Cost of Corporate Failure and the Role of the Private Regulator
- Dodd-Frank: SEC Beefed Up While Investors Gain Little
- Morrison v. NAB: The Shifting Geography of Investor Protections
- Subprime Reckoning: Courts Peel Back the Layers of Fraud
- Share Buybacks in Sweden
- open/close Spring 2010
- Other People's Money: The Unrealized Conflicts of Securities Lending
- Ready...Set...Go! Supreme Court to Set the Clock on Statute of Limitations in Merck/Vioxx
- Finding the Way Back: Reanimating the Spirit of Full Disclosure in our Capital Markets
- Final Word: Major Victory for Investors
- Foreign Investors and US Courts: Will the Investor Protection Umbrella Continue to Reach Across Borders?
- open/close Fourth Quarter, 2009
- Investor Protections: Legislative Efforts to Bring the Balance Back
- Executive Compensation Reform: The Fed to Have Its Say on Pay
- The “New”SEC Comes Out Swinging
- European Reforms In Response to "Kasino-Kapitalismus" -- The Changing Landscape For Institutional Investors In Europe
- open/close Third Quarter, 2009
- Revisiting the Value of Poison Pills
- Credit Rating Agency Oversight and Reform
- SEC Stands with Shareholders on Proxy Access Rules
- Dutch Decision Makes Inroads Toward Collective Binding Settlements in Europe
- open/close Second Quarter, 2009
- New Opportunities for Corporate Governance Reform
- Impact of Recent Delaware Chancery Court Decisions on Investor Rights
- SEC to End Broker Vote Rule
- Policy Makers Work to Give Shareholders More Boardroom Power
- Evolution of Foreign Investors’ Access to US Courts
- open/close First Quarter, 2009
- Investors Look to New Administration With a Hopeful Eye
- Carl Icahn: The Need For Corporate Governance Reform
- The Executive Compensation Problem
- Impact of Recent "F-Cubed" Decision to Foreign Litigants
- open/close Third Quarter, 2008
- The Impact of Deregulation on Wall Street and the Credit Crisis
- Alarming Trends in Whistleblower Protection
- open/close Second Quarter, 2008
- Rating Agencies' Role in Credit Crisis
- SEC Sits on Sidelines During Credit Crisis
- Collapse of Auction Rate Securities
- American Securities Class Actions: The Future of European Litigants in U.S. Courts
- open/close First Quarter, 2008
- Lessons from Bear Stearns' Demise
- Regulatory Underkill on Wall Street
- Paulson Moves to Sideline SEC
- What Costs the American Public More …
Government regulation? Securities litigation? Unrestrained greed? - open/close Fourth Quarter, 2007
- Silence is Golden: Stoneridge Decision Deals a Blow to Investors' Scheme Liability Claims
- The SEC Pulls the Rug out From Under Investors
- The Fingerprints of Fraud in the Mortgage Mess
- Wall Street, Heel Thyself: Put a Leash on Runaway Exec Pay!
- open/close Third Quarter, 2007
- To Scheme or Not to Scheme
- Debating "Scheme" Liability
- GOA Report Finds SEC Routinely Mothballs Fraud Investigations
- open/close Second Quarter, 2007
- Insulating Corporate America from Accountability
- The Fight to Keep America's Capital Markets Fair and Transparent
- SEC: Friend or Foe
- Tellabs: The Supreme Court Decision
- open/close First Quarter, 2007
- Fewer Securities Class Action Filed in 2006 - Permanent Decline, Part of a Cycle, or Random Variation?
- The SEC Flip-Flops at Supreme Court, Betraying Investors
- open/close Third Quarter, 2006
- The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation...a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?
- The Corporate End Run (Editorial Reprinted w/Permission of The New York Times)
- open/close Second Quarter, 2006
- Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Give Me The Lowest Price Of All (Corporate Greed Redux)
- Contesting Attorneys' Fees In Class Actions: A Public Pension Fund Fiduciary Responsibility
- open/close First Quarter, 2006
- From Academia to the Private Sector: A Discussion With Professor Elliott Weiss
- When Less is More, and When It's Not: The SEC Proposed Rule on Executive Compensation
- Making Sure the Dice Aren't Loaded: Market Efficiency and the Fraud-on-the-Market Theory in Securities Class Actions
- open/close Fourth Quarter, 2005
- Congress, The SEC and Private Litigation: Mending Corporate America
- Mediating Securities Class Actions: A View From the Captain's Quarters
- open/close Third Quarter, 2005
- WORLDCOM: How A Ground-Breaking Litigation Altered The Legal Landscape For Large Securities Class Actions And Forced Wall Street To Forever Change Its Ways
- open/close Second Quarter, 2005
- Fiduciaries Beware: Big Business Wants to Roll Back New Investor Protections
- Institutional Investor Recovery - Do You Need Help?
- open/close First Quarter, 2005
- The (Hard) Times They Are A Changin'
- Beyond Criminal Prosecutions: Making "Gatekeepers" Do Their Jobs
- open/close Fourth Quarter, 2004
- The Origins of the Securities Laws
- open/close Third Quarter, 2004
- Just A Friendly Group of "Independent" Directors
- Corporate Boards...or Social Clubs?
- A New Public (But Very Private) Watchdog: The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Issues Its First Reports
- open/close Second Quarter, 2004
- The Plight of The Minimum Wage CEO
- The Results Are In...Class Action Settlements Are Significantly Higher When Institutional Investors Act As Lead Plaintiffs
- open/close First Quarter, 2004
- Institutional Investors Take Back The Street
- Shining Light On the Practices of Pension Fund Consultants: Who Are They Really Serving?
- open/close Fourth Quarter, 2003
- The Mutual Fund Scandal: Is There No Longer Any Shelter From The Storm?
- Memo To Mutual Funds: It's All About Trust
- open/close Third Quarter, 2003
- The HCA Derivative Litigation: A Study On Achieving Corporate Governance Reform Through Shareholder Litigation
- open/close Second Quarter, 2003
- As The Ink Dries, Wall Street Follies Continue
- The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board: Off And Running (Finally!)
- open/close First Quarter, 2003
- Your Portfolio Has Been Hurt By A Securities Fraud...Now What?
- open/close Third Quarter, 2002
- Fundamental Causes Of Accounting Debacles: Show Me Where It Says I Can't
- Civil Litigation Impact Of The New Corporate Fraud Legislation
- open/close Second Quarter, 2002
- A Defense Counsel's Perspective - After Six Years The Jury Is Still Out On The PSLRA
- Reforming the Reform Act And Saving Our Securities Markets
- open/close First Quarter, 2002
- Congratulations To Arthur Andersen: Why Self-Regulation Of The Accounting Industry Doesn't Work
- Look Before You Leap - What Enron Can Teach Potential Lead Plaintiffs
- open/close Fourth Quarter, 2001
- Leaving Money On The Table - Are You Collecting On Your Claims?
- Class Actions - Compensating Victims And Deterring Wrongdoing
- open/close Third Quarter, 2001
- Selecting Lead Counsel In the Midst of Judicial Chaos
- Does "Buy" Really Mean "Sold Out"?
- open/close Second Quarter, 2001
- Deciding When To Serve As Lead Plaintiff: A Seasoned Perspective
- Institutional Investors Persevere In Columbia/HCA Derivative Litigation
- open/close First Quarter, 2001
- Putting Your Mouth Where Your Money Is: Institutional Investor Activism And The Experiences Of The New York State Common Retirement Fund
- The Tide Turns: Institutional Investor Score Big In Delaware State Court
- open/close Fourth Quarter, 2000
- My Experience As Lead Plaintiff
- Auditor Independence: Fact or Fiction?
- open/close Third Quarter, 2000
- Pension Fund Professionals And Trustees Need Continuing Education To Properly Fulfill Their Fiduciary Responsibilities
- Pension Fund Professionals Create A National Organization And Education Certification Program
- Big Browser is Watching You - How Institutional Investors Can Do Well By Doing Good On The Privacy Front
- open/close Second Quarter, 2000
- An End To Mickey Mouse Corporate Governance - Institutional Investors Lead The Way
- Corporate Auditors Under Siege
- Courts Prohibit Misleading Solicitation Of Class Members
- open/close January, 2000
- Mass Solicitations Dupe Institutional Investors
- open/close First Quarter, 2000
- In Re Cendant: The Dawning Of A New Age
- open/close Fourth Quarter, 1999
- Cracking Cracker Barrel...The 1998 Amendments to the Shareholder Proposal Rule
- Having Your Cake and Eating It Too...or Recovering Costs And Expenses Incurred While Serving As Lead Plaintiff
- open/close Third Quarter, 1999
- Aggregation...Do Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth?
- Insider Trading...They Know Something You Don't
- open/close Second Quarter, 1999
- Disclosure Issues For The Year 2000: Truth...Or Consequences?
- Accounting Fraud In Public Companies Is More Prevalent Than Ever: Where Is The Audit Committee?
- open/close First Quarter, 1999
- Institutional Investors as Lead Plaintiffs: Is There A New And Changing Landscape?
- The Battle Over Options Repricing: Investors Take the Offensive
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