May 19, 2020 | Capital Markets, Report
Index investing is based upon a set of predefined, mechanical rules for choosing a publicly known set of stocks.1 The strategy of index investors is to gain exposure to the performance of the market as a whole or a particular segment of the market.2 Given its...
May 17, 2020 | Banking, Financial Stability, Op-Ed
Originally Appeared in the Wall Street Journal Small and midsize businesses have been hit hard by the pandemic, but they aren’t getting the help they need. Why, when the Cares Act provides direct assistance to the Treasury to assist these firms? Congress now has a...
Apr 23, 2020 | Capital Markets, Letter
On April 23, the Committee submitted a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) regarding its proposal to introduce competition among providers of consolidated equity market data for national market system stocks (the “Competition...
Apr 23, 2020 | Capital Markets, Letter
On April 23, the Committee submitted a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) regarding a proposed rule change by the Investors Exchange LLC (“IEX”). IEX’s proposal would create “discretionary limit orders” that are effectively exempt...
Apr 16, 2020 | Banking, Financial Stability, Op-Ed
Originally Appeared in the Wall Street Journal The U.S. economy is in free fall. Leading economic forecasters predict as much as an 11% year-over-year decline in second-quarter gross domestic product. Small businesses—those with under 500 employees, which constitute...
