Financial Stability Content

Every year, the Investment Company Institute works hard to advance public policies and operational efficiencies that benefit funds and their advisers, directors, and shareholders. With the industry’s interests bound ever more tightly to global trends, ICI pursues an active...

Below is an abridged version of a letter by ICI Chairman George C. W. Gatch and ICI President and CEO Paul Schott Stevens that was released in ICI’s 2019 annual report. To read their full letter, please see ICI’s 2019 Annual Report to Members. ICI Chairman George C. W. Gatch and ICI...

Below is an abridged version of a letter by ICI Chairman George C. W. Gatch and ICI President and CEO Paul Schott Stevens that was released in ICI’s 2019 annual report. To read their full letter, please see ICI’s 2019 Annual Report to Members. ICI Chairman George C. W. Gatch and ICI...

After the global financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 set up a regulatory framework to identify and mitigate threats to financial stability. Since then, regulators and industry have taken many actions to make financial markets and market participants more resilient. Yet a new...

In the past year, regulators have expressed concerns that regulated funds with a mandate to invest in investment grade corporate bonds might pose risks to financial stability. Most recently the focus has been on funds’ holdings of BBB-rated corporate bonds, the lowest category still...

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...

ICI Supports FSOC Reforms of SIFI Designation Process, Offers Recommendations for Further Improvement Washington, DC; May 14, 2019—The Investment Company Institute (ICI) today offered strong support for the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) proposal on treatment of...

ICI Urges Congressional Action to Provide Greater Transparency and Accountability to the FSOC Nonbank SIFI Designation Process Washington, DC; March 14, 2019—Investment Company Institute (ICI) President and CEO Paul Schott Stevens testified before the US Senate Committee on Banking...