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Invest Act divides committee: backers tout expanded access to capital, critics warn of risks to retirement savers
Summary
Proponents said HR 3,383 would modernize accredited-investor rules and expand capital access for small businesses; Democrats on Financial Services warned the bill contains provisions that would weaken protections for 403(b) retirement plans, force digital-only delivery to seniors, and expand sales of opaque private assets to unsophisticated investors.
Representative Huizinga (Financial Services) presented HR 3,383, the Invest Act, as a bipartisan package of capital-formation reforms intended to expand access to private markets, index investment thresholds to inflation, create an exam pathway for would-be accredited investors and permit certain registered vehicles to widen retirement-saver access.
"Capital and access to it is the lifeblood for…
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