ICI led a group of the nation’s leading financial and business trade groups and consumer advocates in calling on Congressional leadership to pass the bipartisan Generating Retirement Ownership Through Long-Term Holding (GROWTH) Act.
New analysis of recent survey results from ICI finds that the US fund proxy system is increasingly inefficient, expensive, and ineffective. The growing costs involved are imposed on fund shareholders, and the Securities and Exchange Commission should reform this system.
Across the country, families are still feeling squeezed after the pandemic-era inflation. Prices remain high, mortgage rates are elevated, and many communities struggle to attract the investment they...
The repo market is vital to government bond markets, but its key vulnerabilities stem from leveraged, short‑term financing structures and not from regulated mutual funds. What matters is not who participates in repo transactions, but how vulnerabilities are generated.
On February 26, ICI convened a webinar bringing together leading EU and UK experts to provide the latest developments on the transition to T+1 securities settlement in Europe and the United Kingdom...
ICI announced today that it has been joined by the Defined Contribution Alternatives Association (DCALTA) in a new strategic partnership to advance education, research, and policy engagement on the role of alternative investments within defined contribution retirement plans.
In the State of the Union address last night, the president called to expand retirement savings opportunities for American workers. The Investment Company Institute issued the following statement in response, welcoming the focus on strengthening the nation’s retirement system.
Findings from ICI's 18th annual survey on 'American Views on Defined Contribution Plan Saving' shows that nearly half of all Americans who have retirement savings in a 401(k) or similar plan say they probably would not save for retirement otherwise.
As the gig economy has grown, so too has concern that a workforce increasingly made up of freelancers, independent contractors, and app-based workers is falling through the cracks of the US retirement...
The ECB's recent blog flawed premise assumes that large asset managers are systemically risky based on size and cross‑border reach, and uses that flawed assumption to justify inappropriate, bank‑style supervision and macroprudential rules.
