The leading association representing regulated funds globally, including mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, and unit investment trusts

Joined August 2009
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Jun 12
ICI led a coalition of industry leaders to urge Congress to pass the GROWTH Act, a commonsense update to the tax code that would help 40 million Americans better save for their retirement or other financial milestones. Read our letter: bit.ly/4vFw2n3
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Jun 11
Thanks to @FLOTUS & @SecScottBessent for their work to ensure children in foster care are enrolled in Trump Accounts. It’s essential for families to start their children’s saving and investing journey at birth. Children in foster care deserve the same opportunity. Read more: bit.ly/4vMBWDe
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Jun 11
SCOTUS’s decision in FS Credit Opportunities v. Saba Capital preserves the 1940 Act’s comprehensive, carefully calibrated framework & prevents regulatory uncertainty that would have ultimately harmed fund shareholders. Read more: bit.ly/4efiMP1
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Jun 11
GREAT NEWS: The GROWTH Act now has more than 100 bipartisan cosponsors in the House. Thanks to @RepBethVanDuyne & @RepTerriSewell for championing this bill to end the unfair tax penalty on mutual fund investors and help regular Americans retain more of their hard-earned returns.
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Jun 10
Our #ICIETF concurrent session featuring @HorizonInvest's Clark Allen, Sage Advisory Services’ Komson Silapachai, Stadion Money Management’s Clayton Fresk, and ICI’s Erica Evans explored what features, narratives, and outcomes matter most to different investor segments.
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Jun 10
“Once an ETF takes off, some of that came from marketing, but once the marketing took off, everyone’s talking about it. It can almost go viral in a way.” – Max Nicholson, @meetblossomapp #ICIETF
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Jun 10
“So much of our focus has been on the educational part as we try to build that trust. Then hopefully as that goes on over time, they’re more likely than to look at a specific issuer or a specific group of funds because of what has resonated in the past and because of, hopefully, the success that they have seen.” – Seana Smith, @GlobalXETFs #ICIETF
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Jun 10
“ETFs are an access vehicle, and they’ve only been getting easier to access for retail…There’s this direct correlation with the use of mobile phones and sort of ETFs as technology.” – Jillian DelSignore, @Nasdaq #ICIETF
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Jun 10
Seana Smith, @GlobalXETFs, stresses the importance of reachability, saying that “a lot of that is going on social media platforms, where we have learned that retail investors specifically love the community feel in terms of sharing information.” #ICIETF
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Jun 10
“We’ve really come a long way as an industry, being able to reach retail and also measure the impact of the reach, but finding a way as issuers.” – Jillian DelSignore, @Nasdaq #ICIETF
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Jun 10
“We estimate there’s 20 million US households in 2025 that owned ETFs,” representing 15% of total households, shares ICI Chief Economist Shelly Antoniewicz. She also highlights that 33% of ETF owners are Millennials. #ICIETF
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Jun 10
To close out #ICIETF, we have a concurrent session exploring how social media and other digital tools are reshaping how ETFs are discovered and used, featuring @Nasdaq’s Jillian DelSignore, @meetblossomapp’s Max Nicholson, @GlobalXETFs' Seana Smith, and moderated by ICI Chief Economist Shelly Antoniewicz.
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Jun 10
.@SECgov Director Brian Daly wraps by gifting ICI General Counsel Paul Cellupica the Division of Investment Management’s challenge coin, emblazoned with the text: “The best regs for your nest eggs.” #ICIETF
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Jun 10
.@SECgov Director Daly points to things that are “not exciting, but that are removing barriers that didn’t need to be there,” including ETF share classes and relief on co-investment. “And we’ve got more of that to come.” #ICIETF
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Jun 10
On his top priorities for the Division of Investment Management, @SECgov Director Daly shared: 1. Modernization 2. Deregulatory agendas 3. Good government 4. Responsible retailization #ICIETF
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Jun 10
When asked if we were to look back three years from now, what would be improved in the ETF regulatory framework, @SECgov Director Daly said he hopes we think, “Wow, the wrapper and this concept of allowing the market participants to basically regulate the creation, redemption, valuation, arbitrage processes, it really held up.” #ICIETF
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Jun 10
“We think [independent directors] play a valuable role. We think that they are essential…that is a reservoir of thought, access, experience, intelligence that we would be fools as regulators to not tap.” - @SECgov Director Daly #ICIETF
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Jun 10
.@SECgov Director Daly said the Division of Investment Management’s #1 issue with ETFs is “making sure we’re looking ahead and everything we’re doing is durable.” #ICIETF
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