Manuel F. Cohen

Manuel F. Cohen (October 9, 1912 – June 16, 1977) served as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 1964 and 1969 and also served as a member from 1961-1969.

Born in Brooklyn, he was a graduate of Brooklyn College (1933).

During his tenure, the breadth of the prohibitions against insider trading,^[1] which had been developed earlier under Chairman William L. Cary, grew substantially as the SEC began to bring the key cases that developed the theories of insider trading on which the Commission relies today.^[2]

His daughter Susan Cohen married future United States federal judge Paul D. Borman in 1964.^[3][4]

References

1. ↑ Insider Trading U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, accessed May 7, 2008
2. ↑ Joel Seligman, The Transformation of Wall Street 157 (3d ed. 2003), at 344-47, 357, 362; SEC Historical Society Oral Histories Committee, Roundtable on Enforcement: A Brief History of the SEC’s Enforcement Program 1934-1981 (2002)
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External links

• 32nd Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission
• The Saxe Lectures (1976/77) - THE WORK OF THE COMMISSION ON AUDITORS' RESPONSIBILITIES, Manuel F. Cohen (March 8, 1977)

Chairmen of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission Kennedy Landis Douglas Frank Eicher Purcell Caffrey Hanrahan McDonald D. Cook Demmler Armstrong Gadsby Cary Cohen Budge Casey B. Cook Garrett Hills Williams Shad Ruder Breeden Levitt Pitt Donaldson Cox Schapiro Walter White