SEC to Focus on Empowering Main Street Investors for 2018 World Investor Week

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that empowering Main Street investors will be the SEC’s focus during World Investor Week, which takes place Oct. 1-7, 2018. SEC staff will emphasize both the basics of investing and savings as well as important emerging issues like the rise of initial coin offerings and digital assets, distributed ledger technology, and other innovations. World Investor Week is a global effort promoted by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), with regulators on six continents joining together for the second year to educate investors on how to be smart and avoid fraud. The SEC, along with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), is leading U.S.