Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report and comment on the Court of Appeal, Poole and Others v. HM Treasury. Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines the facts surrounding the case and comments on the ruling. Findings – Lord Justice Buxton gave the only judgment in this...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a practitioner's guide to mortgage regulation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores the mortgage code and the road to statutory regulation. Findings – It was found that the future of mortgage regulation rests partly with those...

Purpose – The passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 followed hard on the collapses of Enron and WorldCom. Waste makes haste. Official reports for US government agencies worried that the legislation may have impaired New York's competitiveness as a venue for international capital...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of key issues in the governance of defined contribution pension schemes, with a focus on investment matters, and to recommend best practices. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on the results of an online survey of the...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the impact of the product market competition, regulations on the dividend policies of the listed banks, over the period 1995-2005 in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – An ordered probit modelling technique and target adjustment model is used....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the predictability of the US-based international mutual fund returns by investigating 2,479 daily observations for all categories of international equity, bond and hybrid mutual funds. Further, trading strategies are proposed and tested under...

Purpose – Against the backdrop of the Financial Services Authority's Retail Distribution Review, this study aims to present an assessment of the potential development of a UK personal financial advising profession. The development of a profession dedicated to providing financial advice is...

Purpose – The United Kingdom Financial Services Authority's treating customers fairly initiative has drawn attention to a current trend that involves regulators using regulatory principles to enhance the relationship between financial institutions and customers. The term corporate fairness is...