White collar crime in the mutual fund industry / Andrew Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Andrew, 1978-

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice : recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mutual funds--Corrupt practices--New York (State).

Mutual funds.

Securities fraud--New York (State).

Securities fraud.

White collar crimes--New York (State).

White collar crimes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Peterson examines conditions and structures that led to abuses in the mutual fund industry. He seeks to provide understanding of not only the scandal's causes and its effects on investors, but also the regulatory response and reformation process. He breaks the scandal down into three parts: its root causes, regulatory responses by various actors, and attempts at reform and regulation. Key themes (e.g., why attorney generals were more successful in prosecuting this scandal than the SEC) are then identified to aid in a holistic understanding of the market timing and late trading scandal. The fin

Contents:

Mutual funds, their history, and this scandal

Cases from the mutual fund scandal

Spitzer and the New York Attorney General's office

Federal regulators and self-regulatory organizations

Lessons learned.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593326036

1593326033

OCLC:

808341447