Dormant Assets Bill [HL] 2021-22
A Bill to expand the scope of an existing scheme that enables dormant assets to be spent on good causes. Commons second reading is scheduled for Monday 6 December.
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Documents to download
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Split Capital Investment Trusts (86 KB , PDF)
This crisis saw retail investment opportunities offered by major funds and which had purported to be safe and low risk vehicles for investment, unravel in a spectacular way. Investors saw the value of their funds decline by percentages very many times that of the decline in underlying equity markets. Investigations in the aftermath revealed structural weaknesses in the structures of the funds and accusations of a self-serving financial community.
Documents to download
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Split Capital Investment Trusts (86 KB , PDF)
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