The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:32:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.9 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Focusing on Fundamentals: The Path to Address Equity Market Structure – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Focusing on Fundamentals: The Path to Address Equity Market Structure https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/10/16/focusing-on-fundamentals-the-path-to-address-equity-market-structure/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=focusing-on-fundamentals-the-path-to-address-equity-market-structure https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/10/16/focusing-on-fundamentals-the-path-to-address-equity-market-structure/#comments Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:15:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=53911?d=20150106125103EST Posted by Mary Jo White, Chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, on Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Editor's Note:

Mary Jo White is Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This post is based on Chair White’s remarks to the Security Traders Association 80th Annual Market Structure Conference; the full text, including footnotes, is available here. The views expressed in this post are those of Chair White and do not necessarily reflect those of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the other Commissioners, or the Staff.

As market professionals, you obviously live the U.S. equity markets first hand, day in and day out. As an association, you have used your voice to focus attention on the value of our equity markets—an all-important engine for capital formation, job creation, and economic growth.

Like you, I believe that we must constantly strive to ensure that the U.S. equity markets continue to serve the interests of all investors. That mutual challenge must come fully of age and address today’s, not yesterday’s, markets. And today, I will speak about the path forward.

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