As investors seek to diversify their investment portfolios – moving beyond stocks and bonds, they have turned to the art investment fund (AIF) for potentially high returns with purportedly low risk. Such funds invest and seek returns by acquiring and selling high-end pieces of fine art for...

The importance of investment advisers to the financial well-being of their clients cannot be overstated. Individuals and institutions entrust trillions of dollars to investment advisers to manage on their behalf. This paper discusses and explains fiduciary principles in investment advice....

We test the predictability of investment fraud using a panel of mandatory disclosures filed with the SEC. We find that disclosures related to past regulatory and legal violations, conflicts of interest, and monitoring have significant power to predict fraud. Avoiding the 5% of firms with the...

Investment managers owe fiduciary duties to clients, including the duty of loyalty and the duty of care. A persistent question, with no clear answer, is what precisely is required by the duties of loyalty and care. In this paper, I argue that much of investment management regulation is a...

In the United States, exchange-traded funds can defer capital gains taxes of their investors by taking advantage of a legal loophole, sometimes referred to as Wall Street's "dirty little secret". To quantify the impact of this tax loophole on investor portfolios, we study a rank-dependent...

The proposition that a prudent investor should be diversified is widely accepted if not incontrovertible for ordinary investors – investors who have no reasonable expectation of influencing company management or business policy. Indeed, fiduciary duty requires that trustees and other...