Dès son entrée en fonctions, Joe Biden va réengager les États-Unis dans l’accord de Paris sur le climat et promettre de réduire à zéro d’ici à 2050 les émissions nettes de carbone. Avec le président Biden, les États-Unis sont maintenant prêts à s’engager dans le sillage de l’Europe...
On his first day in office, Joe Biden promises to bring the US back into the Paris Agreement on climate change and commit to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. In a Biden administration, the US is ready to follow Europe’s lead in confronting climate change.
President-elect Joe Biden clearly plans to recalibrate how the United States engages on key international issues, especially climate change. One immediate place to start: promote a global regulatory framework for corporate disclosures on environmental, social, and corporate governance...
Eighty years ago, on August 23, 1940, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Investment Company Act of 1940, the culmination of the New Deal’s rewrite of American financial regulation. One is hard-pressed to find any financial regulatory legislation as successful as...
Before COVID-19, the region’s economy already was struggling, with growth of just 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2019. Now, EU policymakers are warning that, unless the pandemic eases rapidly, the European economy could contract by 8 to 12 percent or more.
Most people are aware that Social Security provides spousal benefits for husbands and wives who don’t have earnings. But there is another way for a non-working spouse to save for retirement: through a spousal individual retirement account (IRA). Now is the perfect time to contemplate...
UCITS are an example of EU financial innovation and a global success story. With €10.1 trillion in total net assets, UCITS help global investors save for financial goals, including retirement, education, and housing.
Your story “Elizabeth Warren Healthcare Plan Sparks Outcry over 401(k) Tax Hike” accurately exposes a financial transaction tax (FTT) as a burden on retirement and everyday savers. The article, however, only scratches the surface on the ways this tax would harm savers.
The mutual fund industry has supposedly reached a significant tipping point: assets in US index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds have surpassed those in US actively managed funds, according to preliminary data from Morningstar. The Investment Company Institute's more...
FSOC’s Proposals Would Promote Financial Stability, Not Undermine It By Paul Schott Stevens (As published in American Banker , June 28, 2019) Washington watchers often seem to have only one scale for measuring the regulations that govern our markets and economy: more versus less...
