The Center for Investors' Confidence

UPDATE - Prior to the January Market Slide, Portfolio Allocation Was Trending Slightly Down but Investor Sentiment was Dropping Fast - (see details in "News")

Investors' Confidence may be the most critical component
to the U.S. equity markets and the U.S. economy.

The Center for Investors' Confidence ("CIC") is the forum for private industry and government to collaborate in creating effective and measured actions to promote Investors' Confidence.

The following quotes are public statements by the named persons on the issue of investor confidence and in no way constitute any endorsement of CIC or it's services.

"One of the most important byproducts of what the SEC does is the maintenance of investor confidence." Chairman Christopher Cox, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Harvard University, October 24, 2007 "Without such confidence, we all lose. Investors will forego gains, entrepreneurs will have less access to capital, there will be fewer and less attractive jobs, less business to be done, and fewer tax dollars to support government programs. And the impact would fall most heavily on the less privileged." Henry Paulson, U.S. Treasury Secretary, former chairman of Goldman Sachs


"Everything I have experienced suggests that, at core, economic conditions and markets are grounded in the human psyche. That is, confidence, or the lack thereof, profoundly affects markets and economies." Robert Rubin, former U.S. Treasury Secretary

"History tells us that sharp reversals in confidence happen abruptly, most often with little advance notice . . . this type of behavior has characterized human interaction with little appreciable difference over the generations" Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board

Despite the importance of Investors' Confidence, and the plethora of laws and regulations designed to promote it, until now, there has been no effective means to determine when, how, where, or why Investors' Confidence has been promoted or diminished.

The Center is the only entity solely devoted to the promotion of legislation and regulation to increase Investors' Confidence.

The Center for Investors' Confidence was created to define the standard for understanding Investors' Confidence, and to work with industry and government to provide effective and measured laws and regulations to promote Investors' Confidence.