Special-purpose acquisition vehicles, companies with no product, earnings or sales that make takeovers, are Wall Street’s growing source of fees now that the market for subprime-mortgage securities has dried up.
The trouble is that investors who have spent $18 billion since 2003 on U.S. initial public offerings by such shell companies would have been better off holding a mutual fund that tracks the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
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