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Building Resilience: Exploring Capital Market Structural Dynamics and Policy Development
CFA Institute Research and Policy Center addresses how changes to the structure of capital markets affect the formation of capital, the providers of financial services, and the consumers of these services.
The theme Strengthening the Structural Resilience of the Capital Markets underscores our commitment to the dynamic relationship among asset managers, asset owners, and individual investors/savers through the capital markets, given the backdrop of trends in the regulatory and policy environment.
Our research considers market developments and policy matters using our core values and principles—investor protection, market integrity, and professionalism—as our base.