Hello People: I am disturbed that you are wanting to strictly regulate many types of public investments, and, in my case, inverse funds, to name one. I am a 73 year-old single woman, and I have been investing my IRAs and brokerage accounts for decades. It is unnecessary for me to submit to testing or training, as I understand the securities I invest in. I have invested in an inverse fund only a few times throughout the years, with a very conservative amount of money. The fund would be a small percentage of the portfolio. Please let sleeping dogs lie! Thanks.

I should not have to go though any special process like passing a test before I can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. I am capable of understanding leveraged and inverse funds and their risks. I dont need these measures imposed on me.

The freedom to invest in a variety of financial products is paramount for those choosing this as a profession. Diverse investing is how many people make a living.

As with any form of employment, some excel and others find through experience they prefer other options. Not having choice would be disruptive to many livelihoods.

Like other jobs people get better through practice and pay taxes on earnings. For those that have put in the time to learn how to use complex financial instruments as a means of income, to limit or eliminate this option is wrong.

Please do not restrict the rights of investors to invests in the securities of their choice.
As an investor, I use inverse and leveraged funds as a portion of my total investing activities to hedge risk against adverse market moves and to improve my overall investment returns. These securities are a financial tool for me and provide liquidity for broader markets in up and down markets.

I think I, and not regulators, should determine what public investments are right for me and my family.
For that reason I oppose my right to invest.

Why only block leveraged products? I say block the whole stock market for people with less than a million dollars in liquidity. Please create more and tougher hurdles for pleabian class people like us so it becomes even tougher for regular folks like us to climb the financial ladder.

That was sarcasm in case it wasn't obvious to you braindead politicians/regulators.

We need to be allowed to invest in whatever funds we want to invest in.

I oppose restrictions to my right to invest. I should be able to choose public investments that are right for me and my family. I should not have to go thru a special process like passing a test before I can invest in public securities.

It's our American right to invest

I do not support these proposed regulations. It is an investors right to freely access the entirety of the public securities markets without arbitrary restrictions.