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Capital Buffers Could Undermine Money Market Funds, Harm Shareholders Imposition of a capital buffer could result in advisers shifting to less regulated products or to exiting the cash management business altogether, according to a new ICI study.

Fundamentals, Not Fund Flows, Drive Commodity Prices Market demand and supply conditions provide the most consistent explanation for recent trends in commodity prices, finds a new ICI study.

GMM Highlights! See all the highlights from this important event!

2012 Investment Company Fact Book ICI’s annual compilation—our fifty-second edition—reports on retirement assets, characteristics of mutual fund owners, use of index funds, and other trends.

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Frequently Asked Questions on Securities Transaction Taxes Do you have questions on securities transaction taxes? ICI has answers!

Commodity Investments Resource Center Find out more about the ICI-Chamber legal challenge to the CFTC's changes to Rule 4.5, changes that will impose redundant regulation on funds and shareholders.

Money Market Funds in 2012 This page provides background, analysis, and data on regulators’ ongoing examination of money market funds and other issues surrounding these funds.

Exchange-Traded Funds Resource Center This page provides the basics on ETFs, as well as policy views from ICI, updates on recent ETF developments, and links to other ETF resources.

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Weekly Flows of Long-Term Funds Total estimated inflows to long-term mutual funds were $2.24 billion for the week ended Wednesday, May 2.

Weekly Money Market Fund Assets Total money market mutual fund assets increased by $1.19 billion to $2.569 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, May 9.

Monthly Trends In Mutual Fund Investing The combined assets of the nation’s mutual funds increased by $61.6 billion, or 0.5 percent, to $12.458 trillion in March.

Monthly Exchange-Traded Fund Assets The combined assets of the nation’s exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were $1.193 trillion in March.

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Frequently Asked Questions on Securities Transaction Taxes Do you have questions on securities transaction taxes? ICI has answers!

ICI Submits Letter on How to Improve Financial Literacy ICI discusses methods in this letter to the SEC for improvements in timing, content, and format of disclosures, which would help educate investors about a financial intermediary.

ICI Education Foundation Offers Financial Awards ICIEF will again sponsor an annual awards program designed to encourage Washington, DC high school students to participate in a national financial education program.

About ICIEF Formed in 1989, the ICI Education Foundation (ICIEF) is the educational affiliate of the Investment Company Institute.

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Allegations Made in Indiana University Study Are Speculative and Dubious ICI strikes back at a study alleging that funds are consciously shirking their fiduciary duties.

IDC Submits Letter on How to Improve Financial Literacy Reiterating previous statements, IDC encouraged the SEC to improve the disclosures made to investors at the “point of sale” and to streamline the presentation of fund shareholder reports.

IDC and MFDF Express Concern About Further Money Market Reforms IDC and MFDF released a joint statement to voice their shared concerns about the potential collateral consequences and negative impacts of further changes to the structure of money market funds.

About the Independent Directors Council (IDC) IDC provides a venue to advance the education, communication, and policy positions of mutual fund independent directors.

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