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... must be taken into account by arguments in support of their current tax treatment by analogy to entrepreneurs and corporate executives. This analysis is important for two reasons. It provides a perspective on the current issue that has so far been ignored ... to the current debate which relies significantly on loosely drawn analogies between fund managers on the one hand and entrepreneurs and corporate executives on the other. This paper provides the mathematics that these comparisons imply. Other ...

... of its constitution. Authorisation Requirements • Regulated AIFMs must be authorised by the competent regulatory authority of their home nation in the EU. • In the application for authorisation, AIFMs must provide information on non-de minimis AIF stakeholders, a ... hedge funds, would be covered by the proposed Directive. However, as the UK is home to 80% of European hedge funds, it is likely to bear the brunt of the burden of the proposed new regulation. The other fear of many industry bodies is ...

... (Del. Ch. Oct. 22, 2008). The Chancery Court, in granting summary judgment to the defendant partners of a hedge fund, held that the Statute of Frauds applies to LLC operating agreements, an issue that had never before been addressed by the ... and to vacate an order to expedite proceedings by a contested stockholder in an action where the plaintiffs alleged that shares of the subject corporation, AmeriStar Network, were not validly issued, and that all actions by the defendants were void as matter ...

... implemented or intend to implement the following principles and practices, on a voluntary basis, each of which is subject to home country laws, regulations, requirements and obligations. This paragraph is an integral part of the GAPP." (International WOrking ... 4, 2008. ----------, Investment Committee, Report on Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and Recipient Country Policies, April 4, 2008. ----------, Guidelines for Multinational Corporations (2000). Oxford Analytica, West Approaches Opaque SWFs ...

... Gilson, Ronald J. and Milhaupt, Curtis J., Sovereign Wealth Funds and Corporate Governance: A Minimalist Response to the New Merchantilism(February 18, 2008). Stanford ... implement the following principles and practices, on a voluntary basis, each of which is subject to home country laws, regulations, requirements and obligations," Id. at 7. 49. Western ... …and will do justice between real persons." I. Maurice Wormser, Piercing the Veil of Corporate Entity, 12 Colum. L. Rev. 496, 517 (1912). 72. P.L ...

... . The Norwegian Funds A. History B. Legal Structure C. Investment Principles IV. The Norwegian Funds in Action A. Corporate Social Responsibility B. Development and Use in Macroeconomic Policy: the 2008 Financial Crisis V. ... 28 "SWF investments are both beneficial and critical to international markets. For that purpose, it will be important to continue to demonstrate-to home and recipient countries, and the international financial markets-that SWF arrangements are properly set up and investments ...

... feed home state investment appetites. "Meanwhile, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson emphasized U.S. openness to foreign investment and sovereign wealth ... not companies subject to the BHC Act, foreign government-owned corporations such as sovereign wealth funds are companies. Thus any proposed controlling investment in a U.S ... investment vehicles. The Europeans are much more suspicious of governments investing outside their home territories and less likely to accept that states can ever act in non ...

... governments, traditional states, and non state entities as regulators, and the consequences of their collisions drives home these points. I speak here of the recent successful ransoming of the cruise ship Le Ponant from the ... provide little effective service. In particular, it will be important to understand both the limits of state power, and the trajectories of corporate citizenship within this emerging framework of power. But it will also be necessary to remember that while the nature of state ...

... , in favorable or unfavorable ways - by selling assets abruptly and precipitating a crisis, or by bailing out funds or companies that are in trouble. But this argument is difficult to square with the nature of the investment. States power to control the markets ... accounts, can be acceptably regulated, so too sovereign funds. Indeed, even those who worry most suggest that the conflation of state and corporation that appears to be so vociferously denied when the issue is the public responsibilities ...

... as unearned income, which is not subject to self-employment (Social Security) taxes. Just form a corporation, then fill in the blanks on a simple-to-use one-page IRS tax-election form and voila, you're home free (tax-free). I don't ... consistently expressed and shown their resolve to protect it, come hell or high-water or [insert other future fund-balance challenges, such as occasional pushes for privatization, investment-industry lobbying for opt-out alternatives, and the ...