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(Preparations for the Annual Shareholder Meeting)More...
 
Interval Investment Funds
 
Interval funds are a type of closed-end fund that offers to buy shares in the fund back from investors at stated intervals and in stated amounts. However, shareholders are not obligated to sell their shares back to the fund. More...
 
Rulemaking by the Securities and Exchange Commission
 
Federal agencies adopt rules to implement laws. Following the stock market crash in 1929, laws were passed to reform securities markets and to broaden the amount and accuracy of information to be made available to investors by issuers of securities. Those laws included the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Investment Company Act of 1940. The more recently enacted Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 provided additional requirements for corporate governance and disclosure of information.More...
 
DIRECTOR'S DUTY OF LOYALTY
 
AN OVERVIEWMore...
 
Significance of Par Value of a Stock
 
Common stock and other securities may be issued with or without a stated face value or "par" value. Issuing stock with or without par or face value may have several consequences.More...
 
 
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