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Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) represent the largest share of assets in the US retirement market, with assets totaling $13.9 trillion at year-end 2021 (Figure 1). Forty-five percent of this total is held in mutual funds, with IRA mutual fund investors primarily invested in...

Many countries around the world, including the United States, have long-standing safeguards against takeovers by foreign investors in strategic sectors, such as defense, utilities, and transportation. However, the walls inhibiting foreign investment on the basis of national security...

VIEW AS PDF Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) represent the largest share of assets in the US retirement market, with assets totaling $12.2 trillion at year-end 2020 (Figure 1). Forty-five percent of this total is held in mutual funds, with IRA mutual fund investors primarily...

VIEW AS PDF One of my local swim clubs sent a postcard urging me to “sign up for mutual fun,” with a picture of people wading in a swimming pool. Perhaps it’s an occupational hazard that I read that as a reference to mutual funds—or maybe they were acknowledging that our funds are...