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How to Curb Abuses of Insider Abstention and Rule 10b5-1 Plans
Company insiders will typically possess material non-public information (MNPI) about their companies. To allow them to trade, the SEC in 2000 adopted Rule 10b5-1, which provides an affirmative defense to insider trading liability if the trades are made pursuant to …