Single listing rules: protecting the consumer without causing chaos

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Following the split-cap scandal in 2001/02, the FSA implemented investment trust listing rules. These have since been deemed restrictive and the regulator is currently in consultation over a single set of listing regulations. But could these cause more economic damage than they prevent?

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