COVID-19 Content

ICI President and CEO Eric J. Pan explains why policymakers need clear-eyed, evidence-based assessments of the market events of March 2020.

In the past decade, a number of regulators and academics have discussed concerns about the growth in the assets of bond mutual funds, as well as their increasing share of the bond market, especially the corporate bond market. 1 The concern is that bond fund investors, now playing a...

Why have bond mutual funds grown substantially in the past several years? There are two possible explanations, with very different implications.

Policymakers around the globe are studying the turmoil in March 2020 related to the COVID-19 pandemic to determine what happened and why. Similar work is being done by academics and other analysts. Bond mutual funds have been one area of focus, and policymakers will be considering the...

A new national survey by ICI addresses how Americans responded to the financial pressure since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with special emphasis on whether they’ve tapped their retirement accounts. The results show that a strong majority (65 percent) of US individuals did not...

UCITS managers responded to challenges created by the COVID-19-related market turmoil in March by using a variety of tools, according to a new paper—“Experiences of European Markets, UCITS, and European ETFs During the COVID-19 Crisis”—issued by the Investment Company Institute (ICI)...

Retirement Savers Undeterred by COVID-19 Economic Downturn Recordkeeper data covering first three quarters of 2020 show continued contributions, small increase in withdrawal activity Washington, DC; November 19, 2020—Americans overwhelmingly continued saving for retirement through...