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...beginning refused to have any part in the entire havens initiative; while they cooperate on cases of tax fraud, they don't recognize tax evasion by non-Swiss as an offense. Tax havens, says Richard Hay, a lawyer at Stikeman Elliott in London who represents tax havens and some investor groups, "don't want to commit commercial suicide by moving ahead of international standards." He adds: "We are not willing to jump into the volcano if others are not ready to follow." Corporations feel the same way: Why give up a legal advantage? The board of Tyco, for example...
...significant institutional investor in the equities market—the University holds nearly $3 billion in stock—Harvard is a powerful proxy voter in corporate America...
...same time, many groups, including other Universities with large investments and the Washington-based Investor Responsibility Research Center, look to Harvard as a bellwether on socially-oriented proxy proposals...
...this summer. "Most people had accepted that the mutual-fund industry was reasonably free of these sorts of problems," he says. That reputation is partly what has driven mutual funds' tremendous growth since they were established in their current form in 1940 as a way for the average investor to play the market without taking on too much risk. Thanks in part to the rise of 401(k) plans, which added retirement savings to the pool, 54 million American households hold a combined $7 trillion in mutual-fund assets...
...temptation for fund managers, who could boost the size of their assets (a key factor in determining their pay) by making deals with traders to park money in the fund in exchange for late-trading or market-timing privileges. In this environment, the only thing protecting the average investor is the integrity of fund managers...