Indirect investor protection: the investment ecosystem and its legal underpinnings
- This paper argues that the key mechanisms protecting retail investors’ financial stake in their portfolio investments are indirect. They do not rely on actions by the investors or by any private actor directly charged with looking after investors’ interests. Rather, they are provided by the ecosystem that investors (are legally forced to) inhabit, as a byproduct of the mostly self-interested, mutually and legally constrained behavior of third parties without a mandate to help the investors (e.g., speculators, activists). This elucidates key rules, resolves the mandatory vs. enabling tension in corporate/securities law, and exposes passive investing’s fragile reliance on others’ trading.
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| Author: | Holger Spamann |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-616582 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3707249 |
| Parent Title (English): | European Corporate Governance Institute: ECGI Working Paper Series in Law ; No. 594/2021, LawFin working paper ; No. 18, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper ; No. 1046 |
| Series (Serial Number): | LawFin Working Paper (18) |
| Publisher: | Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance, House of Finance, Goethe University |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2021 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2021/09/09 |
| Tag: | Activism; Activist Hedge Fund; Contractarian Model of Corporate Law; Index Funds; Investor Protection; Mandatory Law; Market Efficiency; Plaintiff Lawyers; Private Equity |
| Page Number: | 48 |
| Last Page: | 40 |
| Institutes: | Rechtswissenschaft / Rechtswissenschaft |
| Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften | |
| Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / House of Finance (HoF) | |
| Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS) | |
| Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe (SAFE) | |
| Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / DFG-Forschergruppen / Foundation of Law and Finance | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
