Last week, more than 370 operations and technology professionals attended the third annual ICI Innovate conference in Houston to discuss the transformations that AI, digital assets, and other new technologies are driving across the asset management industry.
Operations is sort of key to making all of these rules work. And so it doesn't help much if we're...
Hester Peirce
SEC Commissioner
Panelists in conversation during the Unified Approach: Operations and Technology in Lockstep panel. The Promise and the Peril of AI AI—and how it’s reshaping the future of work—was one of the hottest...
Don't Miss Our Next Conference ICI’s busy 2026 conference season is just kicking off. Don't miss our next conference, the Investment Management Conference (IMC) in Palm Desert, CA, from March 22 to 25...
The SEC’s Form N‑PORT reporting framework has successfully balanced transparency and investor protection by providing regulators with monthly portfolio data while limiting public disclosure to quarterly reports. This approach has made registered funds highly transparent. However, SEC changes adopted in 2024 threaten to upset this balance and could ultimately harm investors.
Unintended Consequences: How Increased Reporting Frequency Can Affect Investors More frequent public disclosure gives market participants additional data points about a fund’s trading strategy...
Public Disclosure: Risks to Investor Costs and Fund Strategies A fund manager’s investment strategy and current holdings are valuable intellectual property, often developed through extensive research...
As Americans gather throughout the year to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, we are presented with a rare moment to reflect on the ideas and institutions that have shaped our...
ICI announced a partnership with America250 to launch digital content and a national advertising campaign showcasing the investment fund industry’s role in supporting the U.S. economy, communities, and families.
Today ICI called on Congressional leadership to pass the bipartisan GROWTH Act, a bill allowing investors to defer taxation of automatically reinvested capital gains distributions until they sell their fund shares.
ICI released a statement today after the US House of Representatives unanimously passed H.R. 3682, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) Improvement Act of 2025. Representatives Bill Foster (IL-11) and Bill Huizenga (MI-04) sponsored the bill.
ICI President and CEO Eric Pan and Hester Peirce, Commissioner at the SEC held a virtual fireside chat for ICI’s 2026 Innovate Conference in Houston, Texas. Among a range of topics, the pair discussed the emergence of AI in the asset management industry and money market funds.
ICI President and CEO Eric Pan today released a statement regarding the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority updated requirements governing how broker-dealers deliver investor disclosures and other communications. Once effective, the updates will allow member firms to make electronic delivery their default delivery method.
Asset management is operating in a period of change shaped by new technologies, evolving market practices, and shifting regulatory priorities. Many of the questions facing firms today are not about whether change is coming, but how it should be implemented within existing legal and operational frameworks. ICI Innovate is designed for that conversation.