Investment, an exact science

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Identifikator:: 865521182

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-48767

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lowenfeld, Henry

Title:: Investment, an exact science

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: The Financial Review of Reviews

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 160 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII - The defects of the british trustee acts

Collection:: Economics Books

184 these stocks, with the exception of the last, were the national issues of belligerent Powers during a war period, and Chinese Fives were adversely influenced by the Boxer rebellion and the invasion of the country by an inter national force engaged in the armed suppression of the Boxer rising. Yet, in spite of these adverse historical events, it will be seen that this cosmopolitan collection of stocks displayed as a group a far finer Capital Stability than did the purely British Trustee stocks whose fluctuations are illustrated in the chart given in this chapter. Whether the obvious shortcomings of the British Trustee Acts, as evidenced by these charts, will ever be legislatively remedied by the British Parliament extending the scope of the Acts to include certain selected Foreign Government securities it is im possible to predict. But in the meantime one fact is clearly established, and that is that the British Trustee stocks, owing to their absolute identity of movement, do not furnish the essential Capital Stability which Trust Funds should possess. Our researches into the question of the Geographical Distribution of Capital and of the protection thus afforded to investors have so firmly convinced us of the danger of

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