Levitt and Donaldson Head Investor's Rights Task Force

‘This group has been established to work with policymakers in efforts to restore public confidence by seeing to it that regulatory changes will include consideration of the primacy of investor interest,” Levitt explained. “[We] will receive input from the broadest possible base in order to assure investors that transparency and comprehensible investor protections are the metrics by which we judge our markets.”

Kurt Schacht, managing director of the CFA Institute, and Joe Dear, CII chairman and executive director of the Washington State Investment Board, will sit on the panel which includes–among others–Columbia Law School Professor Harvey Goldschmidt, a former SEC commissioner; Barbara Roper, director of Investor Protection for the Consumer Federation of America; Bill Miller, CFA, chairman and CIO of Legg Mason Capital Management, Inc.; Jeremy Grantham, co-founder and chairman of GMO, LLC; Peter R. Fisher, managing director and co-head of fixed income, BlackRock and David F. Swensen, CIO, Yale University.