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Article: The Atlanta Journal and Constitution MoneyTalk Column.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- July 22, 2001
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By Hank Ezell, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 22--With its fair disclosure regulation, the Securities and Exchange Commission outlawed the high-dollar, low-rent practice of giving favored investors first chance at important information.
But the feds couldn't and wouldn't touch another batch of insiders: the executives who run companies and the directors who watch over them.
All of those insiders, within certain limits, can buy and sell shares in the companies they operate and know so well.
Some of them do astonishingly well. Marshall D. Butler of Alpha Technologies Group has decided to ...