Financial services trade groups, including the Investment Company Institute and the Financial Services Institute, sent a joint letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday asking the agency to not pursue its proposed changes to money-market funds, saying they would jeopardize Americans' retirement savings.
The groups told the SEC that they represent the interests of a "significant and broad part of the retirement plan community, including employers and service providers." Together, the group said, the proposals under consideration, "taken alone or in tandem, would fundamentally alter the structure of money-market funds, rendering them far less desirable—if not unusable—for retirement savers and the plans they participate in."
The groups signing the letter were the ICI, FSI, American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries, American Benefits Council, The ERISA Advisory Council, SPARK Institute, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors.
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Melanie Waddell
Melanie is senior editor and Washington bureau chief of ThinkAdvisor. Her ThinkAdvisor coverage zeros in on how politics, policy, legislation and regulations affect the investment advisory space. Melanie’s coverage has been cited in various lawmakers’ reports, letters and bills, and in the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule in 2023. In 2019, Melanie received an Honorable Mention, Range of Work by a Single Author award from @Folio. Melanie joined Investment Advisor magazine as New York bureau chief in 2000. She has been a columnist since 2002. She started her career in Washington in 1994, covering financial issues at American Banker. Since 1997, Melanie has been covering investment-related issues, holding senior editorial positions at American Banker publications in both Washington and New York. Briefly, she was content chief for Internet Capital Group’s EFinancialWorld in New York and wrote freelance articles for Institutional Investor. Melanie holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Towson University. She interned at The Baltimore Sun and its suburban edition.
