Bankruptcy Blogs

The growing popularity of impact investing has led to a raft of new disclosure rules. The problem is that using the SEC to monitor companies' CEO pay policies and use of "conflict minerals" decouples the government agency's authority from its area of jurisdiction.

A number of class-action lawsuits allege that investment advisers breached fiduciary duty by failing to recommend the least expensive products. But both trust law and investment theory acknowledge that responsible advisers take other factors into consideration.

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An Uneven Recovery: Home prices are appreciating in wealthier areas, but values in poorer towns continue to lag behind, the Wall Street Journal reports. In the working-class suburb of Lithonia, Ga., for example, 54% of homeowners are underwater; the same is true of 15% of homes worth less than $200,000 nationwide, compared to just 6% of homes worth more than $200,000. One way to help struggling homeowners could be to slash the...

Congress should avoid becoming so focused on the problems with big banks that they overlook the community lenders suffering from a lack of regulatory relief.