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Edward Wetherell Comment On Regulatory Notice 22-08

To whom it may concern, The know your customer rule, regulation BI and and the pending IRA rollover rules are sufficient to regulate investment options, advice and documentation regarding investment options, recommendations and relationships between advisors and clients. Putting further restrictions and limitations on clients access to investment products will disproportionately and negatively impact smaller/average investors as compliance costs and time spent per transaction increase, these investors will have access to fewer advisor options.

Jed Bandes Comment On Regulatory Notice 22-08

I am outraged that you call Structured Product "complex investments." How can you paint these products with such a broad brush? Frequently companies use futures to hedge against many risks. Why not call their stocks complex investments as well? I believe simply informing clients of the risks, as our firm does with all the investments we sell, should suffice with any risk disclosure. We are not here to quiz clients and grade clients on their knowledge. Furthermore, we are not here to design tests and be graded on their efficacy.

Todd Crawford Comment On Regulatory Notice 22-08

If Finra is going to enact such extreme regulations why have registered representatives? Why would customers even need a licensed registered representative to help them with investing if the only thing they can invest in are simple investments unless they take a test. There are already more than enough regulations and compliance tools to keep registered representatives accountable. This may sound good in theory but so does Communism but in practice it is horrible. This would clearly harm the investing public.