ICI Innovate brings together multidisciplinary experts to explore how emerging technologies will impact fund operations and their implications for the broader industry.
ICI Innovate is participating in the Emerging Leaders initiative, offering a heavily discounted opportunity for the next generation of asset management professionals to participate in ICI’s programming.
On January 16, 2025, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management issued guidance reminding registrants about their website disclosure requirements.
Beginning in 2021, there has been a steadily increasing trend of mutual funds converting to ETFs. Some key differentiators between mutual funds and ETFs are how investors purchase and sell shares, and how the funds themselves purchase and sell portfolio holdings. ETFs are attractive...
ICI filed the attached letter in support of the Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. taking steps to permit the generic listing and trading of multi-class ETF Shares.
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that a registered investment adviser to an exchange-traded fund has agreed to pay a $1.75 million civil penalty to settle charges that the adviser failed to properly disclose a licensing arrangement it had with the ETF's index...
Each year, ICI conducts a survey of US households to track households' ownership of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in order to gather information on their demographic and financial characteristics. The most recent survey was conducted from May to June 2023 and was...
On November 27, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or "Commission"), on a 4-1 vote by seriatim, adopted Rule 192 ("Final Rule") under the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act"), which implements the prohibition under Section 621 of the Dodd-Frank Act on material...
The International Organization of Securities Commissions last month published a report providing a set of good practices to supplement and implement their 2013 principles for the regulation of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) ("ETF Principles").The good practices highlight issues for...
On May 4, 2023, the SEC brought a settled enforcement action against a registered investment adviser and its part-owner and investment adviser representative (together, "Respondents") for alleged breach of the fiduciary duty of care and compliance violations under the Investment...
On February 15, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") adopted rule changes to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dealer transactions in securities from two business days after the trade date ("T+2") to one business day after the trade date...
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