Market Consulting Corporation
Mutual Fund Market Timing Expert Witness Support in Harris County, Texas
Expert witness assistance for mutual fund market-timing disputes involving frequent trading, stale pricing, fund policies, intermediary practices, disclosure, and damages.
Expert witness assistance
Market-timing disputes require review of trading frequency, fund restrictions, prospectus language, intermediary agreements, account records, time-zone or stale-pricing issues, compliance controls, and the alleged economic effect. MCC assists with factual reconstruction and industry-practice analysis without assuming that frequent trading alone establishes liability or damages.
Engagement focus
- Initial case review focused on the factual record, the questions presented, and the likely scope of expert analysis.
- Issue analysis addressing securities, futures, options, trust, portfolio-management, compliance, or industry-practice questions as applicable.
- Damages or loss analysis when the facts and engagement require quantification.
- Assistance with document requests, deposition preparation, mediation preparation, expert reports, rebuttal analysis, and testimony as appropriate.
Trading pattern review
Purchase, redemption, exchange, holding-period, and account-linkage records may be organized to evaluate frequency and timing.
Policy and disclosure review
Prospectuses, fund policies, agreements, emails, and surveillance records may be compared to the activity at issue.
Impact and damages
Where supported, analysis may address investor benefit, fund dilution, fees, costs, and alternative measures of harm.
Issues commonly reviewed
- Frequent trading, exchanges, redemptions, holding periods, and account-linkage evidence.
- Prospectus restrictions, fund policies, waivers, exceptions, and disclosure issues.
- Stale pricing, time-zone arbitrage, NAV effect, and fund-impact questions.
- Broker, adviser, platform, transfer-agent, or intermediary conduct and controls.
- Surveillance, exception reports, warnings, and supervisory response.
- Damages, causation, investor benefit, dilution, and settlement evaluation.
Records commonly requested
- Pleadings, statement of claim, answer, counterclaims, and amended claims.
- New account documents, customer profiles, investment objectives, risk-tolerance records, and account updates.
- Monthly statements, trade confirmations, order tickets, margin records, and cash-flow records.
- Correspondence, emails, recorded calls, notes, exception reports, and supervisory reviews.
- Product materials, offering documents, risk disclosures, prospectuses, research, and internal sales materials.
- Prior settlement discussions, mediation statements, expert disclosures, and damages calculations, when available.
Dr. Ronald W. Cornew and Market Consulting Corporation
The dispute resolution and financial consulting efforts of Market Consulting Corporation are under the direction of Dr. Ronald W. Cornew, President and Senior Consultant. Dr. Cornew personally supervises MCC case work and, when appropriate, draws on a network of industry specialists for very large or complex matters.
Case review
Request expert witness consultation
Provide the forum, parties represented, principal allegations, relevant account or transaction records, and any current deadlines. Additional documents can be exchanged after conflicts and scope are addressed.