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  • How To WIN FREE MONEY With Closed-End Fund Activism by Gwailo
    Closed-end fund shareholders have traditionally been thought of as individual investors. But when last year's market turmoil sent discounts to record levels, according to a December 2008 survey by Herzfeld Advisers and the Altman Group: "market conditions have caused retail investors to... More »
    September 18, 2009 • ASG, DHG, FGF
  • Beyond the Ethical Edge by Gwailo
    Part 1 described some of the troubles now ailing Deutsche Bank, its DWS fund management arm and the DWS closed-end funds. Part 2 recounted how the independent Directors of those funds, who also govern 118 other funds at DWS, passively accepted poor performance and trading discounts that meant... More »
    August 3, 2009 • SRQ, GCS, DHG
  • Temptation by Proxy by Gwailo
    [This is the second of three parts. Part 1 is "Deutsche Bank's Strange Curse"]Almost all investment companies are managed by "external" advisory firms. Unlike operating companies, mutual and closed-end funds themselves have no employees and no fixed assets or facilities: they... More »
    August 2, 2009 • DB, KST, DHG
  • The Deutsche Bank Curse by Gwailo
    Introduction: This article is about conflicts within the investment fund industry, using the Deutsche Bank/DWS fund group as a case example. Several of the funds are now the subject of proxy fights that expose the diverging interests of the shareholders who put up the money, the professionals... More »
    August 1, 2009 • DB, SRO, SRQ
  • Closed-End Funds: A Sophisticated Primer by Dan Plettner
    I began working in Financial Services in the 90s with no appreciation for the complex nature of Closed-End Funds as an investment instrument. The only primers to which I was presented were narrowly constructed, and closely paralleled the firm's "research". I was asked to train rookie... More »
    June 15, 2009 • ADX, LCM, BDV

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