Future Of Opt Outs in Securities Fraud Class ActionsReed Kathrein
Discusses whether the opting out of large institutional investors from the mega securities fraud class actions is likely to continue, and if so what kind of premiums can be expected. By Reed R. Kathrein, Hagens Berman Sobol & Shapiro LLP
"Accounting Theory" is a course of MBA in Jagannath University. This course is very important understanding all the aspects of accounting in business atmosphere.
Future Of Opt Outs in Securities Fraud Class ActionsReed Kathrein
Discusses whether the opting out of large institutional investors from the mega securities fraud class actions is likely to continue, and if so what kind of premiums can be expected. By Reed R. Kathrein, Hagens Berman Sobol & Shapiro LLP
"Accounting Theory" is a course of MBA in Jagannath University. This course is very important understanding all the aspects of accounting in business atmosphere.
Defined Contribution Plans and Fee Lawsuits: Stuck in the Mud or the Road to ...Callan
The message is clear for defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors: follow best practices established for plan fees or risk getting stuck in a costly and time-consuming lawsuit.
Nearly 40 401(k) fee lawsuits have been filed since 2006. The first generation of lawsuits focused on revenue-sharing violations, failure to understand specific costs, and use of retail mutual funds in 401(k) lineups. Over time these lawsuits have expanded in scope, covering everything from the prudence of offering certain stable value funds to adherence to investment policy statements.
In addition to monetary payments, settlements have typically included
requirements to:
• Competitively bid plan recordkeeping services
• Engage an outside consultant
• Utilize institutional or retirement-share classes where possible
• Add passively managed funds to the lineup
• Comply with the Department of Labor’s participant disclosure regulation
In this infographic, Callan describes select DC fee lawsuits. We suggest best practices to help plan sponsors keep their plan on the path to success.
Defined Contribution Plans and Fee Lawsuits: Stuck in the Mud or the Road to ...Callan
The message is clear for defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors: follow best practices established for plan fees or risk getting stuck in a costly and time-consuming lawsuit.
Nearly 40 401(k) fee lawsuits have been filed since 2006. The first generation of lawsuits focused on revenue-sharing violations, failure to understand specific costs, and use of retail mutual funds in 401(k) lineups. Over time these lawsuits have expanded in scope, covering everything from the prudence of offering certain stable value funds to adherence to investment policy statements.
In addition to monetary payments, settlements have typically included
requirements to:
• Competitively bid plan recordkeeping services
• Engage an outside consultant
• Utilize institutional or retirement-share classes where possible
• Add passively managed funds to the lineup
• Comply with the Department of Labor’s participant disclosure regulation
In this infographic, Callan describes select DC fee lawsuits. We suggest best practices to help plan sponsors keep their plan on the path to success.
Day 3 of series, reading assessment: what counts, what is measured, what is valued, what informs our daily instruction. A sampling of instructional sequences with high ceilings and low floors.
This presentation explain how the Object-Relational Mapping layer provided by the OMG DDS standard can be used in order to integrate data distribution into your favorite Object Oriented Programming Language, such as Java, C++, C#.
Addressing the Challenges of Tactical Information Management in Net-Centric S...Angelo Corsaro
This paper provides an overview of the advantages provided by the OMG Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systemts (DDS) for addressing the challenges associated with Tactical Information distribution.
1. The security exchange commission (SEC) was formed in 1933 in th.docxjeremylockett77
1. The security exchange commission (SEC) was formed in 1933 in the wake of the great depression. According to Karmel (1998), the SEC engages in a wide range of regulatory activities and some administrative duties but its reputations is mostly that of a prosecutorial agency. As stated by Seaquist (2012), the securities act of 1933 is only applicable to initial public offerings (IPO). To list an IPO it must first be registered with the SEC. Registration is required by law for a corporation to sell stock to the public (Seaquist, 2012). A California private non-profit university wishing to sell “Shares in Learning” certificates for $500 redeemable for two undergraduate courses or one graduate course would not need to register with the SEC to issue the certificates. There are securities that are exempt from registering with the SEC. As stated by Seaquist (2012), one of the securities are exempt from regulation in the Securities Act of 1933 are securities issued by non-profit religious, charitable, educational, benevolent, or fraternal organizations.
If the University was for-profit and operated in all 50 states and wanted to sell the “Shares in Learning” certificate it would still not need to register with the SEC. The supreme court case SEC v W. J. Howey Co. concluded that an investment contract is a security under the act (Seaquist, 2012). As defined by the “Howdy test” an investment contract meets the criteria for a security if a person invests in a common enterprise and reasonably expects a profit derived from the efforts of others (Seaquist, 2012). The “Shares for Learning” certificates do not pass the Howdy test to qualify as a security as there is no reasonable expectation for profit. Despite the fact that the “Shares for Learning” may be resold without limitation it is not feasible to consider making a profit off of the certificates. It seems unreasonable that one would buy the certificates in the hope that the University's leadership would make an effort to increase the cost of tuition to the point that one could turn a profit from the $500 certificates on higher resell.
References
Karmel, R. S. (1998). Creating law at the securities and exchange commission: the lawyer as prosecutor. Law and Contemporary Problems. 61(1) 33-46. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database
Seaquist, G. (2012). Business Law for Managers. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc
2. Both the federal and state governments regulate listing and selling stock to the public. The Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange of 1934 was implemented to protect investors from fraudulent and deceptive activities.
The securities for Private University will not need to be registered with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) because, under the Securities Act of 1933, there are several situations in which securities are exempt from registration. One exemption is that nonprofit educational institutions are exempt from having to register secu ...
The Devastating Effects of Mismanaged Subsidiary Governance: How You Can Lear...Athennian
This webinar, hosted by Adrian Camara (Co-founder & CEO of Athennian) and Paul Sutton (Founder of LCN Legal), will dive into a causal analysis of corporate scandals and oversights that have led to severe financial and criminal penalties. Discover tangible ways to prevent the mismanagement of corporate data that befell companies like BlackRock & Holcim.
This presentation by Jocelyn Martel, Professor ESSEC, was made during the discussion “Barriers to exit” held at the 132nd meeting of the OECD Competition Committee on 4 December 2019. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found at oe.cd/bte.
Early-stage companies need tremendous amounts of cash to grow rapidly. Yet, angel groups and venture-capital firms are not usually a realistic option for early stage startups. Additionally, entrepreneurs often find that financing options such as savings, friends, family, and bank loans, even if available, cannot cover the high startup costs attendant to growing a business. Recently, the media has anointed "crowdfunding" as the solution to this startup capital gap. But what exactly is crowdfunding?
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An Analysis of the Tax Holiday for
Repatriation Under the Jobs Act
By Roy Clemons and Michael R. Kinney
Table of Contents
I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759
II. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760
III. Review of Relevant Academic Literature . . 761
IV. Who Repatriated Under the Jobs Act and
Why? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762
V. Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762
VI. Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765
VII. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767
I. Introduction
The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (Jobs Act)
provided a one-time tax holiday that reduced the maxi-
mum effective U.S. tax rate on repatriated foreign profits
from 35 percent to 5.25 percent. Congress’s intent in
passing the act was to stimulate the U.S. economy by
expediting the repatriation of foreign earnings that might
have otherwise remained abroad,1 and requiring the
repatriations to be invested in domestic operations.2
To induce firms to use the repatriated foreign earnings
for domestic investment, firms received the one-time tax
benefit only if the repatriated funds were invested in the
United States under a domestic reinvestment plan ap-
proved by management before repatriation.3 Permitted
uses included domestic investment in research and de-
velopment, capital investments, debt repayment, and
mergers and acquisitions. Uses that were explicitly pro-
hibited under the act included distributions to sharehold-
ers and repurchase of shares. Although the act explicitly
prohibited these uses, it lacked regulations to enforce the
proscriptions. For example, there was no requirement
that firms isolate funds or demonstrate that spending on
qualified uses exceeded the amount the firm would
normally have spent. Therefore, the lack of regulatory
constraints in implementing the act likely permitted
firms to spend the repatriated funds on disallowed uses.
In this article we investigate who repatriated foreign
earnings under the provisions of the act, why firms
repatriated, and how firms used the repatriated funds.
We identify 364 firms that repatriated approximately
$283 billion of earnings under the act. Compared with
nonrepatriating U.S. firms, the repatriating firms, on
average, are larger and have more profitable foreign
operations, a higher marginal U.S. tax rate, a lower
effective foreign tax rate, and lower historical growth
rates. These attributes suggest that firms repatriating
under provisions of the Jobs Act are more mature firms
that appear to use foreign operations as a tax planning
strategy.
Among the repatriating firms, the size-scaled amount
repatriated is positively associated with the difference
between the firms’ U.S. marginal tax rate and effective
foreign tax rate, as well as the profitability of foreign
operations. These associations suggest that repatriating
1Congr.
The cost of litigation for those people in society who lack financial substance, are unable to afford the official legal process and therefore often lose out in disputes, the introduction of PrivateCourt offers them a means to have the access to justice."
A class action, also known as a class action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member of that group. The class action originated in the United States and is still predominantly a U.S. phenomenon, but Canada, as well as several European countries with civil law have made changes in recent years to allow consumer organizations to bring claims on behalf of consumers.
Moderninizing bank supervision and regulationcatelong
This is the testimony of Chris Whalen to the Senate Banking Committee on March 24, 2009 about bank and financial institution regulation and supervision.
Webinar on Hidden Fees in 401k plans. How they impact plan holders and the potential liability that business owners and fiduciaries are now exposed to.
Living in a Post-Morrison World: NAPPA Working GroupReed Kathrein
Edited and coordinated by Adam Franklin, General Counsel of Colorado PERA and Catherine LaMarr, General Counsel of the office of the State Treasurer of Connecticut, this Working Paper analyzes the landscape of securities litigation post the U.S. Supreme Courts decision in Morrison v. National Bank of Australia Ltd. (2010). Due to Morrison, investors no longer have the protection of the U.S. securities laws if the securities were purchased on a foreign exchange. Reed Kathrein was a contributing member and primarily drafted the chapters on the state of securities litigation in Australia, Germany and South Korea. The project was commissioned by Greg Smith, then General Counsel of ColoradoPERA, as President of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys ("NAPPA").
Occupy Wall Street through Legislative Reform, NCPERS 2012Reed Kathrein
Starting with the Great Depression, legislative reforms were put in place to protect U.S. investors
Over the last 17 years, Congress and the U.S Supreme Court have stripped investors of much protections
In the current “Occupy” environment, sentiment may be running high for legislative re-reforms. This presentation discusses the Supreme Court cases of Citizens United, Morrison and Stoneridge and possible legislative roll-backs.
Edited and coordinated by Adam Franklin, General Counsel of Colorado PERA and Catherine LaMarr, General Counsel of the office of the State Treasurer of Connecticut, this Working Paper on the analyzes the landscape of securities litigation post the U.S. Supreme Courts decision in Morrison v. National Bank of Australia Ltd. (2010). Due to Morrison, investors no longer have the protection of the U.S. securities laws if the securities were purchased on a foreign exchange. Reed Kathrein was a contributing member and primarily drafted the chapters on the state of securities litigation in Australia, Germany and South Korea. The project was commissioned by Greg Smith, then General Counsel of ColoradoPERA, as President of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys ("NAPPA").
The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005,Reed R. Kathrein, Esq.
San Francisco, California
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CLE International – 3rd Class Actions Annual Conference
January 25-26, 2007 Los Angeles, California
THE OPTIONS SCANDAL: SEC AND PRIVATE, ENFORCEMENT TRENDSReed Kathrein
THE OPTIONS SCANDAL: SEC AND PRIVATE, ENFORCEMENT TRENDS, REED R.
KATHREIN, Partner HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP ---EEI's ANNUAL SEC
ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTE Effective Compliance Strategies in an Era of
Stepped-Up Enforcement! May 22-23, 2007 * New York June 27-28, 2007 *
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The Consumers Legal Remedies ActPlaintiffs PerspectiveThe 5th Annual Unfair Competition Law ProgramMay 18, 2007Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los AngelesReed R. Kathrein
Hagens Berman Sobel & Shapiro LLP
Managing Partner, San Francisco Office
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
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In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
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This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
11. WorldCom $14 Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation $350.3 million TOTAL $78.9 million Five NYC Pension Funds $257.4 million CalPERS, CalSTRS, LACERS Settlement Amount Claimant
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13. AOL/Time Warner(2) $763.8 million TOTAL $14 million Amalgamated Bank $20 million Stichting Pensioenfunds $22.3 million Los Angeles Pension Funds $45 million UK Pension Funds $50 million State of Alaska $105 million CalSTRS $117.5 million CalPERS $144 million Ohio State Pension Funds $246 million University of California Settlement Amount Claimant
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15. Qwest (2) $142.6 million TOTAL $61.6 million Teacher Retirement System of Texas $19 million Alaska Permanent Fund Corp (AFPC) $15.5 million Colorado PERA $46.5 million CalSTRS Settlement Amount Claimant