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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787337203321

Autore

Armstrong Chris

Titolo

Moose pastures and mergers : the Ontario Securities Commission and the regulation of share markets in Canada, 1940-1980 / / Christopher Armstrong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-4426-5778-2

1-4426-2078-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (451 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

346.713092

Soggetti

Securities - Ontario - History

History

Electronic books.

Ontario

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1 'The Canadian Problem' -- 2 Self-Regulation -- 3 Moose Pastures -- 4 Regulating the Stock Exchange -- 5 Fighting Fraud -- 6 Windfall -- PART II -- 7 Challenges -- 8 Disclosure -- 9 Decline of the Broker-Dealer -- 10 Foreign Ownership -- 11 Mergers -- 12 Competition -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX: Indexes of Common Stock Prices, 1940-1977 -- NOTES -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- M -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Sommario/riassunto

A history of the development of the Ontario Securities Commission from the post-war years to the increasingly complex financial world of the 1970s and 1980s.