Research Handbook on the Regulation of Mutual Funds

With fifty trillion in worldwide assets, mutual funds and their rapid growth are truly global phenomena, deserving a broad international analysis. Local political economies and legal regimes create different regulatory preferences for the oversight of these funds, and academics, public officials and legal practitioners wishing to understand the global investing environment will require a keen awareness of these international differences.

The contributors, leading scholars in the field of investment law from around the world, provide a current legal analysis of funds from a variety of perspectives and use an array of methodologies that consider the large fundamental questions governing the role and regulation of investment funds. This volume also explores the identity and behavior of investors as well as issues surrounding less orthodox funds, such as money market funds, ETFs and private funds.

This Handbook will provide legal and financial scholars, academics, lawyers and regulators with a vital tool for working with mutual funds.