ICI Viewpoints Content

ICI brought together nearly 600 tax and accounting professionals from September 17–20 for the 2023 Tax and Accounting Conference, hosted in San Antonio, Texas. This annual event educates attendees on the latest trends and information their firms need to succeed in the asset management...

Like the products themselves, exchange-traded fund (ETF) and mutual fund investors share many commonalities. In fact, most ETF-owning households also own mutual funds, using both vehicles to achieve similar goals. However, recent ICI survey data shed light on some important...

Critics of the current retirement system often claim that Americans have insufficient income in retirement and that the system’s voluntary component is failing, leaving retirees too reliant on Social Security. 1 While these assertions are used to justify proposals to overhaul employer...

When the European Commission released its proposed EU Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) package, it noted that capital market participation in the European Union has traditionally been lower than in the United States. We sometimes hear that part of the reason for this discrepancy is...

The EU Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) aims to advance the Capital Markets Union (CMU) and empower retail investors to save and invest more effectively, including through UCITS and similar products. One important element of the European Commission’s RIS proposal is a focus on “value...

Cost Benchmarks in the EU’s Retail Investment Strategy Will Stifle Innovation A look at the EU’s Retail Investment Strategy By Matthew Mohlenkamp and James Duvall The recently released EU Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) aims to advance the Capital Markets Union (CMU) and empower...

In a recent ICI Viewpoints, we promised to briefly revisit some of the concerns we’ve long voiced about the theoretical underpinnings of the first-mover hypothesis. That is, the notion that fund investors may redeem en masse during market downturns to avoid the possibility of other...

Policymakers are laser-focused on a concept in open-ended funds called dilution, suggesting that it poses financial stability risks. In a nutshell, dilution occurs when fund shareholders redeem and the transaction costs of meeting those redemptions—such as bid-ask spreads or the...

Last week, ICI’s annual Leadership Summit convened some of the most important decisionmakers in asset management and government. Amid fast-moving developments in financial markets, emerging technologies, and geopolitics, we learned how these leaders are managing through this time of...

ICI was honored to host the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, at our annual Leadership Summit and to hear from him about his priorities. Appearing virtually, Gensler spoke at length about financial stability and his agenda regarding open-end funds. However...