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Article: For mutual funds the scandal is what has remained legal; Too much money flows to mutual fund managers.(Adviser's Bookshelf)(Reprint)
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- Investment News
- Article date:
- January 28, 2008
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Byline: Robert Kuttner
One very large player figured only marginally in the scandals of the 1990s - the $7 trillion mutual fund industry. There has been relatively little exposure of wrongdoing and even less reform when it comes to mutual funds - because, in the immortal words of former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, the scandal is what's legal. The more than six thousand mutual funds hold the assets of over 100 million small investors and pensioners.
The legal scandal comes in two parts.
The first is the exorbitant amount of money that flows to mutual fund managers at investors' expense. The Investment Company Act of 1940, which governs ...