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In May, the US and Canada moved from settling securities transactions two days after a trade to one. This shift to ‘T+1’ was a resounding success. The EU should follow suit.

September 12, 2024—Powerful activist investors have been abusing the New York Stock Exchange's annual shareholder meeting requirement for listed closed-end funds, a requirement that provides little benefit to long-term shareholders and costs them millions of dollars. The NYSE's...

Financial regulators in the US have recently expressed worries over the growing use of Treasury futures by registered funds, particularly an increase in long positions over the past three years. These futures positions, in the view of regulators, may be causing vulnerabilities in the...

Capital markets union is essential to the success of the European project. Vibrant capital markets efficiently channel investment to companies and, with historically higher long-term rates of return compared to those offered by bank accounts, are an unequivocal engine of household...

Ambitious policymakers from both big US political parties are looking to make hay of the failed idea that retail investment funds hold too much stock in our largest companies. They are hoping to advance headline-grabbing policy agendas that would ultimately harm everyday American...

Mutual funds have been foundational to American retail investing for almost a century. They democratised investing, presenting the first effective way for the middle classes to pool assets to achieve market returns. But the US Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a...

The risk is that the regulator would invite itself into the management of savings vehicles By Susan Olson (As published in Financial Times, December 9, 2022) Names can be a beginning, yet they can only describe so much. To make investment decisions, an accurate description of the...

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s job is to make markets work. But today’s SEC leadership—which as of August had proposed 26 new rules this year alone—is ignoring the real-world effects of its regulations on market participants. Its approach can be described as “regulation by...

Opinion Markets Insight Liquidity strains in markets need structural fixes It might be easier to target funds but broader remedies are required to deal with times of stress Eric J. Pan The writer is president and chief executive of the Investment Company Institute (As published in...

Saving for retirement is an important financial goal for millions of Americans. For many, the current system works well, as Americans have more than $39 trillion earmarked for retirement.