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Securities

Sep. 9, 1999

Securities Pacts Are Criticized as Wealth Transfers

SAN FRANCISCO - A frustrated federal judge has grudgingly approved settlements totaling $14 million in two shareholder suits, but used the opportunity to criticize the calculations used in securities settlements as "a wealth transfer formula" that benefits large institutional investors at the expense of individual shareholders.

By Pamela A. MacLean
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - A frustrated federal judge has grudgingly approved settlements totaling $14 million in two shareholder suits, but used the opportunity to criticize the calculations used in securities settlements as "a wealth transfer formula" that benefits large institutional investors at the expens...

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