A System Built on Trust

Investing your money involves trust. Whether you’re saving for retirement, college, or other milestones, you rightfully expect that your investments will be safeguarded from misuse, allocated in accordance with your goals, and reported accurately.

Mutual funds, ETFs, and other regulated funds are designed to meet those expectations. When you invest in regulated funds, you can do so knowing they operate within a comprehensive legal and regulatory system built to protect investors and promote transparency. Since 1940, Congress has defined the asset management industry’s responsibilities to investors and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has set robust rules for funds. The SEC also enforces compliance with those rules.

Among their many obligations, a regulated fund’s investment adviser, which makes investment decisions based on the fund’s stated objectives, and its directors, who oversee the fund, have duties of care and loyalty—known as fiduciary duties. That means they must act in the fund’s best interest. Each fund must also regularly furnish information to its shareholders describing how the fund invests its assets as well as its performance, fees, risks, and more. Standard practices like these, along with strong regulatory oversight, have fostered public trust in regulated funds and supported their widespread use in Americans’ retirement plans.

Today, however, policymakers are introducing proposals that would make it much more difficult for funds to operate, potentially preventing Americans from accessing certain funds and strategies that have successfully served their financial needs for decades. 

That’s why Secure Financial Future is giving a voice to investors like you. We’re leading the charge to defend your investments from bad ideas coming out of Washington while supporting policies that enable you to invest confidently toward your goals.

Join our action network as we seek to empower investors in their quest for a Secure Financial Future.