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    FOCUSING ON MAIN STREET

    The SEC’s focus on Main Street investors reflects the fact that American households own $38 trillion worth of equities — more than 59 percent of the U.S. equity market — either directly or indirectly through mutual funds, retirement accounts and other investments.

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National Financial Capability Month
April is National Financial Capability Month. All month long, SEC leadership and staff will promote free tools and resources available on Investor.gov and participate in investor education events across the country.
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OMWI After 10 Years
The SEC Historical Society and Howard University hosted a panel discussion highlighting the SEC's Office of Minority and Women Inclusion's work over the last decade.
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Office Hours with Gary Gensler: Order Execution

The SEC proposed amendments that would update the disclosure required under Rule 605 of Regulation NMS for order executions in national market system stocks, which are stocks listed on a national securities exchange. Chair Gensler provides more details in his latest Office Hours. 

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42nd Annual Small Business Forum

The SEC's Small Business Office is hosting the annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation, where members of the public and private sectors gather to provide feedback to improve capital raising policy. Register to participate at www.secsmallbusinessforum.com.
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The SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy issues Investor Alerts & Bulletins as a service to investors. Investor Alerts typically warn investors about the latest investment frauds and scams. Investor Bulletins tend to educate investors about investment-related topics including the functions of the SEC.

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Ombudsman

The Ombudsman will listen to your inquiries, complaints, and issues, review the information you provide, and help identify procedures, options, and resources. The Ombudsman is also available to clarify certain SEC decisions, policies, and practices, and serve as an alternate channel of communication between retail investors and the SEC.

We Facilitate Capital Formation

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2022 OASB Annual Report

OASB has delivered its 2022 annual report to Congress and the Commission. The report details how entrepreneurs and investors are building companies together from startups to small public companies.
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FinHub

The SEC’s FinHub facilitates our active engagement with innovators, developers, and entrepreneurs of financial technology.

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Tell us about your experience

Making Wall Street work for Main Street means getting your input. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to hear from you! We want your input on proposals and other pertinent issues and topics. We want to know what information is important to you, the investor.
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Check out updates on the SEC open data program, including best practices that make it more efficient to download data.

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Money Market Fund Statistics

Our Investment Management Analytics Office released an updated Money Market Fund Statistics report. The report reflects staff’s compilation and analysis of data reported to the Commission on Form N-MFP.

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    The Investment Adviser Information Reports' data is collected from electronic submissions of Form ADV by investment adviser firms to the Investment Adviser Registration Depository (IARD) system.
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  • Financial Statement and Notes Data Sets
    The data sets provide the text and detailed numeric information in all financial statements and their notes extracted from exhibits to corporate financial reports filed with the Commission using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL).
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SEC Enhances Access to Financial Disclosure Data

The SEC has released Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that aggregate financial statement data, making corporate disclosures quicker and easier for developers and third-party services to use. APIs will allow developers to create web or mobile apps that directly serve retail investors.