Open-End Funds Content

VIEW AS PDF In late November 2024, the Bank of England published the results of its first system-wide exploratory scenario (SWES) exercise—a year-long effort to model how various financial entities, including non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs) and banks, would respond to a...

The Investment Company Institute submitted a letter with its views on the International Organization of Securities Commission’s consultations on revised recommendations for liquidity risk management for open-end funds and the guidance for the effective implementation of the...

The Investment Company Institute submitted its views to the European Commission on its consultation assessing the adequacy of macroprudential policies for non-bank financial intermediation. The comments specifically address open-end funds (OEF) that its members manage in the European...

Open-end long-term mutual funds (“funds”) have a long history of successfully managing liquidity, enabling them to meet shareholder redemptions in a timely manner while pursuing their investment objectives. Over the past four decades, 99.94% of these funds have met redemptions...

On September 2, 2023, ICI Global provided comments on the International Organization of Securities Commission’s (IOSCO) consultation on proposed Liquidity Management Tool (LMT) Guidance for Open-Ended Funds (OEFs). Our members help millions of retail investors around the world by...

On September 2, 2023, ICI Global filed comments with the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) regarding their recent Consultations on liquidity risk management in open-ended funds (OEFs). Read more in the comment letter.

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...

Demand for lower-cost investment products, competition among the vast number of available funds, and economies of scale have driven down average expense ratios industrywide over the past quarter century. With average expense ratios declining again in 2022, investors will continue to...