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Congressional Securities Trading 国会证券交易
Pub Date : 2020-04-07 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3570314
Gregory H. Shill
In March 2020, it was revealed that several U S Senators had cashed in their stocks after receiving intelligence on COVID-19, sparking both outrage and renewed
2020年3月,有消息称,几名美国参议员在收到有关新冠肺炎的情报后,将自己的股票套现,引发了愤怒和愤怒
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引用次数: 2
Mismarking Fraud in Mutual Funds 共同基金中的错误标记欺诈
Pub Date : 2020-03-20 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3395430
V. Atanasov, John J. Merrick, Philipp Schuster
We study potential fraudulent mismarking of newly purchased odd lot and two classes of round lot positions in structured products. Such mismarking artificially inflates net asset values and overstates cumulative returns. Applied to mutual funds launched after January 2010, a simulation-tested mismarking fund filter identifies 12 Highly Questionable funds managing $75 billion. The performance of these funds matches closely the predicted pattern of mismarking: extremely high alpha and skewness, particularly immediately after launch. We show that structured-product mismarking can seriously inflate return-since-inception metrics. We also provide evidence consistent with return smoothing in at one quarter of the sample structured product funds. The inflated performance metrics benefit fund managers through significantly higher Morningstar ratings and asset growth, but cause material losses to later investor cohorts.
我们研究了结构性产品中新购买的奇数批和两类圆形批的潜在欺诈性错标。这种错误标记人为地夸大了资产净值,夸大了累计回报。应用于2010年1月以后推出的共同基金,一个经过模拟测试的错误标记基金过滤器识别出12只管理着750亿美元资金的高度可疑基金。这些基金的表现与预测的错标模式非常吻合:极高的alpha值和偏度,尤其是在刚推出后。我们表明,结构性产品的错误标记会严重夸大自成立以来的回报指标。我们还提供了与四分之一样本结构化产品基金的收益平滑一致的证据。夸大的业绩指标通过显著提高晨星评级和资产增长,使基金经理受益,但对后来的投资者群体造成重大损失。
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引用次数: 3
Petition for Rulemaking on Short and Distort 关于短和扭曲规则制定的请愿书
Pub Date : 2020-02-16 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3538340
J. Coffee, Joshua Mitts, James D. Cox, Peter Molk, Edward F. Greene, Randall S. Thomas, Meyer Eisenberg, R. Thompson, Colleen Honigsberg, Andrew Verstein, Donald C. Langevoort, Charles K. Whitehead
Today, some hedge funds attack public companies for the sole purpose of inducing a short-lived panic which they can exploit for profit. This sort of market manipulation harms average investors who entrust financial markets with their retirement savings. While short selling serves a critical function in the capital markets, some short sellers disseminate negative opinion about a company, inducing a panic and sharp decline in the stock price, and rapidly close that position for a profit prior to the price partially or fully rebounding. We urge the SEC to enact two rules which will discourage manipulative short selling. The petition for rule-making on short and distort has been jointly signed by twelve securities law professors nationwide.
如今,一些对冲基金攻击上市公司的唯一目的是引发一场短暂的恐慌,从而从中获利。这种市场操纵伤害了把退休储蓄托付给金融市场的普通投资者。虽然卖空在资本市场上起着至关重要的作用,但一些卖空者散布对一家公司的负面看法,引发恐慌,导致股价大幅下跌,并在股价部分或完全反弹之前迅速平仓获利。我们敦促美国证券交易委员会制定两项规则,以阻止操纵性卖空。要求制定卖空和扭曲规则的请愿书由全国12位证券法教授共同签署。
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引用次数: 0
The Rise the Duty of Prudence and Demise of the Large-Menu Defense: An Update on Recent ERISA Litigation and Divane v. Northwestern 审慎义务的兴起和大菜单辩护的消亡:最近ERISA诉讼和Divane诉西北大学的最新情况
Pub Date : 2019-12-19 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3506849
Lou Cusano
This paper is broken into three separate sections: Section I provides an overview of employee-benefit retirement plans and the statute which sets the guidelines for the regulation of such plans; Section II provides a history of the fall of the “large-menu defense” and the rise of the duty of prudence; Section III explains the recent ERISA litigation involving Northwestern University and argues that the court erred in the dismissal of the case because it misapplied the large-menu defense and failed to recognize the recent case law strengthening the duty of prudence.
本文分为三个独立的部分:第一部分概述了员工福利退休计划以及为此类计划制定监管指导方针的法规;第二部分提供了“大菜单辩护”的衰落和谨慎义务的兴起的历史;第三部分解释了最近涉及西北大学的ERISA诉讼,并认为法院在驳回案件中犯了错误,因为它错误地应用了“大菜单”辩护,并且未能认识到最近加强谨慎义务的判例法。
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引用次数: 0
Market Manipulation Schemes at Option Expiration 期权到期时的市场操纵方案
Pub Date : 2019-10-15 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3520933
K. Danger, Matthew Flagge, James Outen
This paper discusses market manipulation schemes on option expiration dates. We show that under ordinary circumstances, writers, but not holders, would have an incentive to manipulate the expiration of standard options, but both are incentivized to manipulate cash-settled options. Using our baseline results, we examine profits and incentives for a number of common option strategies. We then discuss a number of novel changes in modern option markets, such as automatic (as opposed to optional) exercise, different methods of calculating settlement prices, and passive exit strategies, and how these innovations affect the incentives to manipulate. Finally, we discuss manipulation for positional as opposed to profit-taking motives and examine several recent regulatory cases involving option manipulation.
本文讨论了期权到期日的市场操纵方案。我们表明,在一般情况下,期权出售者(而非期权持有人)有操纵标准期权到期日的动机,但两者都有操纵现金结算期权的动机。使用我们的基线结果,我们检查了一些常见的期权策略的利润和激励。然后,我们讨论了现代期权市场的一些新变化,例如自动(相对于选择性)行使,计算结算价格的不同方法和被动退出策略,以及这些创新如何影响操纵动机。最后,我们讨论了与获利了结动机相反的头寸操纵,并研究了最近几个涉及期权操纵的监管案例。
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引用次数: 1
Cryptocurrencies and Securities Fraud: In Need of Legal Guidance 加密货币和证券欺诈:需要法律指导
Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3413384
Ellen S. Podgor
The specificity of statutes is important when the statute provides for criminal penalties. This Essay examines a cryptocurrency fraud prosecution, looking at the issue of whether cryptocurrency is included in securities fraud statutes. It also looks at proposed legislation that would omit cryptocurrency as a security, but then calls for enhanced regulation and tax relief. Additional clarification is needed to ascertain whether cryptocurrency fraud can be prosecuted under current securities fraud statutes. This Essay questions such prosecutions when the location of key definitions rest within agency regulations. Although specificity may not be needed to account for every imaginable type of fraud, when it comes to cryptocurrencies, Congress needs to provide more direction.
当法规规定刑事处罚时,法规的专一性是很重要的。本文研究了加密货币欺诈起诉,研究了加密货币是否包含在证券欺诈法规中的问题。它还研究了拟议的立法,该立法将忽略加密货币作为一种证券,但随后呼吁加强监管和税收减免。需要进一步澄清,以确定是否可以根据现行的证券欺诈法规起诉加密货币欺诈。当关键定义的位置在机构法规范围内时,本文对此类起诉提出质疑。虽然可能不需要具体说明每一种可以想象到的欺诈类型,但在加密货币方面,国会需要提供更多的方向。
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引用次数: 6
Testimony of Urska Velikonja Before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets on Proposals to Strengthen Enforcement Against Securities Law Violators Urska Velikonja在美国众议院投资者保护、创业和资本市场小组委员会就加强对证券法违法者的执法建议作证
Pub Date : 2019-06-19 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3453501
Urska Velikonja
The Committee is considering two different kinds of legislative proposals. The first kind are improvements to the existing regime: rewarding PCAOB whistleblowers to encourage early reporting, improving the process for granting waivers from bad actor disqualifications, and increasing the civil fines that the SEC can impose. The second kind of legislative proposals codify an existing practice in SEC enforcement, now decades-old, such as disgorgement in civil actions. These practices are threatened by recent Supreme Court decisions in Kokesh v. SEC, 137 S. Ct. 1635 (2017) and Gabelli v. SEC, 133 S Ct. 1216 (2013). These cases threaten not only SEC disgorgement but also similar remedies sought by the SEC and its sister enforcement agencies. Failure to act and adopt the proposed amendments does not preserve the status quo. Rather, inaction would significantly hamper SEC enforcement since lower courts applying these new decisions are blocking long-standing agency practices. The testimony is divided in three parts. In Part I, I discuss the Discussion Drafts that propose increasing civil fines and codifying equitable relief in civil actions. In Part II, I supply empirical evidence on the impact of short limitations periods on SEC enforcement, and suggest that an increase in the limitations period is necessary. Finally, in Part III, I provide data on SEC’s bad actor disqualification and waiver practices. Specifically, my comments suggest that the proposed amendments are necessary to bring transparency and accountability to the waiver process.
委员会正在考虑两种不同的立法建议。第一种是对现有制度的改进:奖励PCAOB举报人,鼓励他们尽早报告,改进对不良行为者取消资格的豁免程序,增加SEC可以施加的民事罚款。第二类立法建议是将SEC已有数十年历史的现有执法做法编入法律,比如民事诉讼中的撤销。这些做法受到最近最高法院在Kokesh诉SEC案(137 S Ct. 1635(2017))和Gabelli诉SEC案(133 S Ct. 1216(2013))中判决的威胁。这些案件不仅威胁到SEC的解散,而且威胁到SEC及其姐妹执法机构寻求的类似补救措施。不采取行动和通过拟议的修正案不能维持现状。相反,不作为将严重妨碍证交会的执法,因为下级法院适用这些新裁决,阻碍了证交会长期以来的做法。证词分为三个部分。在第一部分中,我讨论了增加民事罚款和将民事诉讼中的衡平法救济法典化的讨论稿。在第二部分中,我提供了短时效期对SEC执法的影响的经验证据,并建议延长时效期是必要的。最后,在第三部分中,我提供了美国证券交易委员会不良行为者取消资格和放弃实践的数据。具体地说,我的评论表明,拟议的修正案对于使豁免程序具有透明度和问责制是必要的。
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引用次数: 1
Indirect Regulation of Hedge Funds 对冲基金的间接监管
Pub Date : 2019-06-17 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198840954.013.22
Wulf A. Kaal
This chapter evaluates the prevalent regulatory approaches for hedge funds. Among these are direct regulation, indirect regulation, so-called prudential hedge fund regulation, and eventually co-coordinated international cooperation. The chapter shows that indirect regulation of the hedge fund industry attains most regulatory objectives while providing the industry with sufficient freedom to operate. The chapter concludes with an examination of the benefits of indirect regulation of the hedge fund industry.
本章评估了对冲基金的普遍监管方法。其中包括直接监管、间接监管、所谓的审慎对冲基金监管,以及最终的国际协同合作。本章表明,对冲基金行业的间接监管实现了大多数监管目标,同时为该行业提供了足够的经营自由。本章最后考察了对冲基金行业间接监管的好处。
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引用次数: 2
The Underlying Underwriter: An Analysis of the Spotify Direct Listing 基础承销商:Spotify直接上市分析
Pub Date : 2019-05-23 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3393027
B. Nickerson
In April 2018, music streaming giant Spotify disrupted the traditional initial public offering model and became a publicly traded company through a novel process known as a direct listing. Eschewing standard Wall Street practice, Spotify did not raise new money through the offering and instead simply made its existing shares available for purchase by the public. Spotify worked throughout 2017 and 2018 alongside legal counsel and investment banks and in communication with the Securities and Exchange Commission to facilitate the unorthodox approach. Major technology companies are now adopting a similar approach. In recognition of these developments, this Comment has two aims: to shed light on the statutory contours of a direct listing and to contribute to the legal understanding of underwriter liability. As this financial innovation unfolds, an important question remains: Who is liable as an “underwriter” in a direct listing for purposes of liability under Section 11 of the Securities Act? This Comment argues that the investment banks Spotify retained as financial advisors qualify as statutory underwriters notwithstanding language in the registration statement to the contrary. By walking through the precise statutory elements of a direct listing and by calling attention to latent liabilities in the process, this Comment seeks to set forth a path for future technology unicorns to follow the Spotify playlist.
2018年4月,音乐流媒体巨头Spotify打破了传统的首次公开募股模式,通过一种被称为直接上市的新流程成为一家上市公司。Spotify避开了华尔街的标准做法,没有通过ipo筹集新资金,而只是让公众购买其现有股票。在2017年和2018年期间,Spotify与法律顾问和投资银行合作,并与美国证券交易委员会进行沟通,以促进这种非正统的方法。大型科技公司现在也在采用类似的方法。鉴于这些发展,本评论有两个目的:阐明直接上市的法定轮廓,并促进对承销商责任的法律理解。随着这种金融创新的展开,一个重要的问题仍然存在:根据《证券法》第11条的规定,谁作为“承销商”在直接上市中承担责任?本评论认为,Spotify聘请作为财务顾问的投资银行有资格成为法定承销商,尽管注册声明中有相反的语言。通过详细介绍直接上市的具体法律要素,并在此过程中提醒人们注意潜在的责任,本评论旨在为未来的科技独角兽公司提供一条效仿Spotify播放列表的道路。
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引用次数: 3
A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation: Will the Market Fix the Market? 证券交易竞争与创新理论:市场会修复市场吗?
Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3391461
Eric Budish, Robin S. Lee, John J. Shim
Will the market adopt new market designs that address the negative aspects of high-frequency trading? This paper builds a theoretical model of stock exchange competition, shaped by institutional and regulatory details of the U.S. equities market. We show that under the status quo market design: (i) trading behavior across the many distinct exchanges is as if there is just a single “synthesized” exchange; (ii) as a result, trading fees are perfectly competitive; but (iii) exchanges capture and maintain significant economic rents from the sale of “speed technology” (i.e., proprietary data feeds and co-location)—arms for the high-frequency trading arms race. Using a variety of data, we document seven stylized empirical facts that suggest that the model captures the essential economics of how U.S. stock exchanges compete and make money in the modern era. We then use the model to examine the private and social incentives for market design innovation. We find that while the social returns to market design innovation are large, the private returns are much smaller and may be negative, especially for incumbents that derive rents in the status quo from selling speed technology.
市场是否会采用新的市场设计来解决高频交易的负面影响?本文建立了一个证券交易所竞争的理论模型,该模型受美国股票市场的制度和监管细节的影响。我们表明,在现状的市场设计下:(i)跨许多不同交易所的交易行为就好像只有一个“综合”交易所;(ii)因此,交易费用具有完全竞争性;但是(iii)交易所通过出售“速度技术”(即专有数据馈送和托管)获得并维持可观的经济租金,这是高频交易军备竞赛的武器。使用各种数据,我们记录了七个程式化的经验事实,这些事实表明该模型捕捉了美国证券交易所在现代如何竞争和赚钱的基本经济学。然后,我们使用该模型来检验市场设计创新的私人和社会激励。我们发现,虽然市场设计创新的社会回报很大,但私人回报要小得多,甚至可能是负的,特别是对于那些在现状中通过销售速度技术获得租金的现有企业。
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