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   "text": "Director independence does not produce effective risk monitoring: as the failure of independent director oversight at Lehman Brothers and other large U.S. financial firms shows, independent directors cannot monitor risk when managers, accountants and lawyers keep them in the dark.",
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   "text": "The traditional mutual fund governance model, in which one board serves multiple discrete funds within a sponsor's group, is subject to significant oversight challenges.",
   "abstract": "serving as a single board for multiple discrete funds (Morley & Curtis 2010)). The traditional governance model is, thus, subject to significant oversight challenges (Krug (2016)).",
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   "text": "In a multimanager series trust the board is largely independent of any adviser in the fund group, because the structure is centered on an unaffiliated administrator rather than on the sponsoring investment adviser.",
   "abstract": "Unlike the board in a traditional mutual fund governance setting, the board in a multimanager series trust arrangement is largely independent of any advisers within the fund group.",
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   "text": "Despite open issues and possible shortcomings, the multimanager series trust structure appears to offer lasting substantive governance improvements for mutual funds.",
   "abstract": "Despite the open issues and possible shortcomings of the multimanager series trust model, the trust model governance structure for mutual funds appears to offer lasting substantive governance improvements for mutual funds (Krug (2016)).",
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