Index

• Author: Anita Indira Anand
• Pages: 181-188

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Index

Activist investors, 133

Aerotyne Inter national, 60

Agency cost es sentialism, 13 4

Agency t heory, 134

Albert a Securities Comm ission, 70,

124n5, 129

Alb erta’s Security Frauds P revention Act,

105

America n International G roup (AIG),

3, 4, 85

Anderson, E rnest, 64

Asset sales , 149

Asset-backed comme rcial paper (AB CP)

accredited inves tor exemption, 81n3

Canadian market, 80

crisis , xiv, 79, 83, 85

denition, 79

disclosu re, 81

liquidit y providers, 82

maturity, 79–80

rating , 79, 80n2

regulator y oversight, 83, 8 4

risks, 8 0, 83, 85

short-term debt exe mption, 80, 81n3,

83

sponsorship, 81

Austra lian Securit ies and Investment

Commission , 124

Bainbr idge, Stephen, 164

Baja Minin g Corporation, 166

Bank of Ca nada

mandate, 8 6, 86n19

warni ng about debt level, 97

Bank of I nternational Se ttlements,

98

Bankr uptcy rates, 90 –91

Banks . See also Investment bank s

capitali zation, 74, 75

conservat ism, xiv

credit rating downgrade, 98

global n ancial crisi s and, 5, 5n2

government interventions, 7 6

high-press ure sales tactics, 4 7

mortgage mo del, 77

regulat ions, xiv, 77

risk ma nagement, 74, 76 –77

sources of infor mation, 4

sponsorship of A BCP, 81–82

Tier 1 ratios, 74 –75

BCE Inc v 197 6 Debentureholders, 15 3

Bear Stearns, 72

Bebchuk, L ucian, 165

Belfort , Jordan, 60, 61

Berle, Adolf, 133 , 134, 159

Best-interest dut y, 43–4 4, 48, 50 –51, 59

BNP Pari bas, 1

Bourse de Montre al, 18

British C olumbia Securit ies Commis-

sion (BCSC) , 67

British C olumbia’s Securities Act, 6 7

Business judg ment rule, 163n12