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I want to talk to you today about two topics: first, what the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States has proposed on climate-related disclosures by public companies; and second, what we—the investor community—mean when we ask for global inter-operability of...

Shortening the settlement cycle will mitigate risk and maximize investment opportunities—all for the benefit of funds and their investors.

ICI, SIFMA, and the DTCC are continuing their efforts to advocate for shortening the securities settlement cycle to T+1.

In a headline half-hour at ICI’s 2021 General Membership Meeting on May 6, ICI President and CEO Eric J. Pan wasted little time pressing Jamie Dimon for his view on a wide range of hot-button policy issues—and the JPMorgan Chase chairman and chief executive was happy to oblige.

The pandemic-related market turmoil of March 2020 and the responses to it among financial markets and regulators will undoubtedly weigh heavily on regulators as they make adjustments over the coming years. At ICI’s 2021 General Membership Meeting, ICI President and CEO Eric J. Pan sat...

A version of this letter by ICI Chief Economist Sean Collins was released in the Institute’s 61st edition of the Investment Company Fact Book. 2020. What a year. I’m writing this letter sitting in my basement, which has served as my office this past year. It’s March 15, 2021, almost...

Recently, ICI, SIFMA, and the DTCC announced that our organizations are collaborating on efforts to accelerate the US securities settlement cycle from two business days after a trade is executed (T+2) to one business day after a trade is executed (T+1). We’ve been discussing this...

Even as the market turmoil triggered by strict government mandates and social distancing due to the COVID-19 health crisis raged in March 2020, ICI started studying how registered funds weathered the crisis. As the dust settled, we quickly identified a key factor that exacerbated...