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Harrison Fiduciary | Archive | Fiduciary Regulations
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Subscribe to the RSS feed. Return to Harrison Fiduciary. Fiduciaries Enter the Spotlight. Published on 09 April 2015 by Mitchell Shames. Our Time Has Come. At the next cocktail party, trying mentioning that your firm does fiduciary work for qualified retirement plans. Immediately, people’s eyes glaze over, they bolt to re-fill their drinks, and those who remain simply give a quizzical nod desperately trying to be polite. Fiduciaries, fear not! Our moment in the spotlight has arrived. Digging beneath the ...
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CalPERS Calling It Quits on Hedge Funds | Harrison Fiduciary
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Subscribe to the RSS feed. Return to Harrison Fiduciary. CalPERS Calling It Quits on Hedge Funds. Published on 16 September 2014 by Mitchell Shames. In Fees and Expenses. Maybe the Start of a Trend. The nation’s largest pension fund has announced that it will be liquidating its positions in 24 hedge funds and 6 hedge fund-of-funds. CalPERS, Nation’s Biggest Pension Fund, to End Hedge Fund Investments. Reported in today’s New York Times. That’s the rationale? Click here to cancel reply.
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Harrison Fiduciary | Archive | Company Stock
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Subscribe to the RSS feed. Return to Harrison Fiduciary. The World Post Dudenhoeffer. Published on 09 September 2014 by Mitchell Shames. A Practical View From the Trenches. After the drama of a Supreme Court argument, multiple amicus briefs, and voluminous commentary, the role of a fiduciary (from the perspective of a fiduciary) after. Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer. In the end, looks very similar to the role of a fiduciary before. Simply put, post. Market price, and. Although the Supreme Court ackn...
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Harrison Fiduciary | Archive | Dark Pools
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Subscribe to the RSS feed. Return to Harrison Fiduciary. Are Fiduciaries in the Dark about Dark Pools? Published on 26 June 2014 by Mitchell Shames. Dark pools remind me of revenue sharing. Not much good can come from business practices or products with descriptive titles of this nature. Has focused the spot light on dark pools by filing a law suit against Barclays over its private stock trading platform… otherwise known as dark pools. The issues are serious and complex for Wall Street, however, I am muc...
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Harrison Fiduciary | Archive | ESOPs
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Subscribe to the RSS feed. Return to Harrison Fiduciary. DOL Lays Down the Gauntlet for ESOPS. Published on 11 September 2014 by Mitchell Shames. Once Again, Strong Process and Substance Matters. There is not much love lost by the Department of Labor for ESOP transactions. The skepticism, even antipathy, is somewhat justified. Some ESOP transactions don’t pass the smell test (see my prior post: ESOPs: Common Sense Required. Perez v. GreatBanc Trust Co. In short, DOL requires that the fiduciary be an acti...
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Over 10,000 Hedge Funds | Harrison Fiduciary
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Subscribe to the RSS feed. Return to Harrison Fiduciary. Over 10,000 Hedge Funds. Published on 01 October 2014 by Mitchell Shames. Fiduciaries, Can You Pick the Best Ones. Calpers’s announcement that it is liquidating its hedge fund investments continues to attract widespread attention. Hedge Funds Lose Calpers, and More. As reported by James B. Stewart in the New York Times. Apparently, even Calpers, with all of its resources and its heft in the marketplace, wasn’t able to crack this nut. But, the analy...
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Harrison Fiduciary | Archive | Broker/Dealers
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Subscribe to the RSS feed. Return to Harrison Fiduciary. Fiduciaries Enter the Spotlight. Published on 09 April 2015 by Mitchell Shames. Our Time Has Come. At the next cocktail party, trying mentioning that your firm does fiduciary work for qualified retirement plans. Immediately, people’s eyes glaze over, they bolt to re-fill their drinks, and those who remain simply give a quizzical nod desperately trying to be polite. Fiduciaries, fear not! Our moment in the spotlight has arrived. Digging beneath the ...
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Harrison Fiduciary | Archive | Independent Fiduciary
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Subscribe to the RSS feed. Return to Harrison Fiduciary. DOL Lays Down the Gauntlet for ESOPS. Published on 11 September 2014 by Mitchell Shames. Once Again, Strong Process and Substance Matters. There is not much love lost by the Department of Labor for ESOP transactions. The skepticism, even antipathy, is somewhat justified. Some ESOP transactions don’t pass the smell test (see my prior post: ESOPs: Common Sense Required. Perez v. GreatBanc Trust Co. In short, DOL requires that the fiduciary be an acti...
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Harrison Fiduciary | Archive | Fiduciary Duty
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Subscribe to the RSS feed. Return to Harrison Fiduciary. Guessing at Private Equity Fees — What’s That About? Published on 04 May 2015 by Mitchell Shames. In Fees and Expenses. Fiduciaries must drill down on Expenses. ERISA lawyers, plan sponsors and services providers have devoted endless hours to compliance with the 408(b)(2) requirements. Where have the Private Equity firms been? And, where have the fiduciaries been? Why are plan fiduciaries still guessing? Despite the opacity surrounding these fees, ...
