The problem of how to invest the funds of another is not new. While not intended as an investment guide, this article traces the development of the law in the area of fiduciary investment, analyzing the conflict inherent in balancing the considerations of safety, yield and liquidity with the needs of the beneficiaries. Concluding that most common law and statutory standards are unduly restrictive in light of modern investment practices, the author considers the Maryland experience and suggests that the Maryland legislature adopt a prudent man rule which would enable fiduciaries to effectively utilize contemporary investment vehicles
The duty of prudence enunciated by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1830 in Amory v. H...
The ongoing financial crisis is largely explained by the fact that organizational rules and governan...
The debate about financial advice in the United States has taken a wrong turn. Instead of focusing o...
The problem of how to invest the funds of another is not new. While not intended as an investment gu...
A Review of Modern Investment Management and the Prudent Man Rule by Bevis Longstret
Part I of this article presents a brief history of the prudent man standard and explores the meaning...
Investment professionals are subject to varying standards of conduct when providing advice to client...
Professor Gordon examines a seeming paradox: How did a rule named for the prudent man, with its co...
Fiduciaries who invest assets held by a charity must act as prudent investors. This Article exami...
Professors Langbein and Posner recently proposed that fiduciaries be allowed to invest in market fun...
The article discusses fiduciary obligation that broker-dealers and investment advisers owe their cli...
The ongoing financial crisis is largely explained by the fact that organizational rules and governan...
The “prudent man” or “prudent person” rule governing trust investments is one of the oldest rules in...
This Article is meant to serve as a guide to the Uniform Prudent Investor Act. I point to the main r...
This Article examines the dilemma of a fiduciary acting for parties who, as among themselves, have c...
The duty of prudence enunciated by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1830 in Amory v. H...
The ongoing financial crisis is largely explained by the fact that organizational rules and governan...
The debate about financial advice in the United States has taken a wrong turn. Instead of focusing o...
The problem of how to invest the funds of another is not new. While not intended as an investment gu...
A Review of Modern Investment Management and the Prudent Man Rule by Bevis Longstret
Part I of this article presents a brief history of the prudent man standard and explores the meaning...
Investment professionals are subject to varying standards of conduct when providing advice to client...
Professor Gordon examines a seeming paradox: How did a rule named for the prudent man, with its co...
Fiduciaries who invest assets held by a charity must act as prudent investors. This Article exami...
Professors Langbein and Posner recently proposed that fiduciaries be allowed to invest in market fun...
The article discusses fiduciary obligation that broker-dealers and investment advisers owe their cli...
The ongoing financial crisis is largely explained by the fact that organizational rules and governan...
The “prudent man” or “prudent person” rule governing trust investments is one of the oldest rules in...
This Article is meant to serve as a guide to the Uniform Prudent Investor Act. I point to the main r...
This Article examines the dilemma of a fiduciary acting for parties who, as among themselves, have c...
The duty of prudence enunciated by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1830 in Amory v. H...
The ongoing financial crisis is largely explained by the fact that organizational rules and governan...
The debate about financial advice in the United States has taken a wrong turn. Instead of focusing o...