This course introduces the Internet, the institutions and new business types in the online investing industry. It considers the regulatory difficulties involved in applying law and policy developed in advisory broking conditions to online investing sites. It looks at features of online activity - immediacy, inter-activity and inter-jurisdictionality - which suggest that different regulatory approaches might be needed online. The course also raises cross-cutting issues such as behavioural finance and investor education; the loss of regulatory 'gate-keepers' eg advisory brokers; the overwhelming amounts of financial information available, new actors such as day-traders and empirical evidence about online investor attitudes and practices coming from the ARC 'Regulating Online' project at www.bakercyberlawcentre.org/onlineinvesting

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