The 1933 Securities Act Defines the Term "Security

question 37

Essay

The 1933 Securities Act defines the term "security." The courts have generally interpreted the statutory definition to include non-traditional forms of investments.The Supreme Court of the United States has adopted a two-tier analysis of what constitutes a security.Within this analysis the Court has used a three-part test to determine whether a non-traditional financial transaction constitutes an investment contract and thus a security.Explain: (a)the 1933 Act's statutory definition of security, (b)the courts' general interpretation of the 1933 Act's definition and (c)the Supreme Court's two-tier test.

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Definitions:

Degrees Of Freedom

The count of the number of values in a calculation that are free to vary without infringing on the given data.

T-Distribution

A probability distribution that arises in the sampling distribution of sample means, especially useful when the sample size is small and the population standard deviation is unknown.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped curve where a large number of data points are symmetrically distributed around the mean, with fewer and fewer observations the further away from the mean.

Point Estimate

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