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FSN: Can the SEC Improve if it Does Not Perform a Viable Function?
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from The Daily Bell
The Great Debate … Can the SEC ever improve? … The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s case against Citigroup’s Brian Stoker, a director in the bank’s Global Markets group, seemed clear-cut. Stoker structured and marketed an investment portfolio consisting of credit default swaps. The agency accused him of misrepresenting deal terms and defrauding investors for not disclosing the bank’s bet against the portfolio while pitching the investment vehicle to customers. But when it came to trial earlier this summer, the government could not prove that Stoker knew or should have known that the pitches were misleading, and the jury didn’t convict. It’s hardly surprising. The SEC’s failure to secure a guilty verdict is one more sign that the commission still has not climbed out of the morass in which it was mired for most of the Bush years. The agency tasked with overseeing some 5,000 broker-dealers, 10,000 investor-advisers, 10,000 hedge funds, and 12,000 public companies, as well as mutual funds, the exchanges and even the rating agencies, is ailing because of outdated rules, systems and structures. – Reuters
Dominant Social Theme: It needs tweaking but it is a good agency.
Free-Market Analysis: We’ve written about the dysfunction of the SEC quite a bit and we know where we stand on the SEC’s viability … It never was viable.
The main idea behind the SEC is to force individuals to provide full disclosure of their financial offering in such a way as they can be sued civilly. But like all other regulatory authorities, the SEC doesn’t work as planned.
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2012-09-12 13:38:02
Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2012/09/12/can-the-sec-improve-if-it-does-not-perform-a-viable-function/
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