This report highlights the activities of the CFA Institute Capital Markets Policy Group located in the Washington, DC, and Charlottesville, VA, offices of the America’s division.

We encourage investors to “look under the hood” at the results — not for their predictive ability this quarter per se but rather for the ability of a company’s forward-looking statements to be evaluated and to make their own assessments of future prospects. Until there is a vaccine, company results and outlook will likely be filled with uncertainty, and these interim results can provide insight into the impact of the pandemic and how the business may respond in the future as the pandemic ebbs and flows over the next few years.

Are investors correctly pricing expected future growth in the current valuations of MNC companies and their parents?

In economics and investing, some concepts have become indistinguishable from articles of faith.

Some top-line thoughts on the SEC's final ruling on Exemptions from the Proxy Rules for Proxy Voting Advice.

CFA Institute FinTech survey results suggest investment managers are hesitant to deploy fintech solutions with uncertain cost-benefit tradeoffs.

How did gender lends funds perform amid the pandemic and economic downturn of the first quarter?

Due to the impact of COVID-19 on how companies are reporting during the second quarter/half year, investors likely need to perform their own going concern analysis.

More and more women are thriving as traders. Barbara Stewart, CFA, talks to three of them.

Most countries either require or recommend separation of independent directors, but India had long incentivized this separation by requiring a higher minimum ratio (50% instead of 33%) of independent directors on boards on which the chair is also the CEO.