Sentences with phrase «fees against investors»

Juries are often happy to award treble damages and attorney's fees against investors, so caution is in order.

Not exact matches

And then if the flat fee is proportioned to match the afford - ability of the low to middle class citizen then you have increased your potential investor class and the amount of capital you can transact against.

He's also wary of the ways of Wall Street and cautions investors to steer clear of its institutional con men and cautions against excessive fees and taxes that invariably eat up profits.

Low - cost index funds (or exchange traded funds) give investors a big leg up against the vast majority of actively managed funds that charge more than 2 % of assets annually because most of the active funds fail to earn back the fees they charge.

What you can't argue against is the desire of the industry to prod investors into vehicles that provide much higher fees than those found on plain vanilla index ETFs on which we continue to see downward pressure.

The thoughtful, detailed analysis and judgment of the proposed move by the federal government to create a national securities regulator shows how little improvement there really is likely to be for the individual investor in solving key problems: high fees for mutual funds, costly access to government of Canada securities, lack of fiduciary responsibility by the industry towards investors, inadequate civil court recourse against misbehaving financial firms, priority given to financial system protection over investor interests.

Instead, he feels investors need to do a better job of measuring fees against the benefit.

Investors should also compare fees against industry benchmarks and averages.

So let's all please stop pretending that when investors insist that you cap your legal fees when negotiating against them that they're doing it to save you money.

While there may be debate about the practice of an outside investor covering costs awards, experts» fees, disbursements or even the full expense of the litigation, the relatively few decisions in Canada in this area have all said that there is no prohibition against it.