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Leveraged and inverse funds are critical to portfolio management, including the capacity to enhance and hedge returns. I regard efforts to limit investment in these funds as highly invasive of personal freedom and choice.
I believe public investments should be made available to the public, and not beheld to arbitrary regulations. This country operates on the principles of life, liberty, and the _pursuit_ of happiness. As such it should be the responsibility of the citizen to gauge the risk of their own assets, not a government imposition to prevent us from trying. As an investor, I am capable of gauging the risk of various instruments to my portfolio, and it is my funds that are being invested.
Accredited investors shouldnt lose rights.
I oppose any new regulation that is going to limit my ability to freely buy and sell shares of certain stock. As average middle class citizens trying to get by we are already getting stretched thin with the recent lowering of the $600 threshold (1099) with this current awful administration, and now this. Stop proposing measures that will only hurt average middle class citizens trying to better their lives. This is a travesty.
Please stay out of what I invest in! Period.
Investor understandings are subjective! Complex products is so broad, arbitrary and vague. Investors have the right to decide which public equities, bonds and funds they want to buy. I oppose limitations on my ability to buy leveraged and inverse Funds!
I want to be able to invest in Proshares Funds like SCO. I understand the risk and feel this is hurting the small investor which is Anti-American. Please do not overextend Government reach on this one.
Independent investors see that markets go up and markets go down and need to have the ability to invest in inverse funds without the cost of expensive advisors and with the same freedoms as large institutions. We do not need the nanny state protecting us from our own assessment of risk. This is a basic freedom versus big-state control issue. I am capable of understanding leveraged and inverse funds and risks. Please stop this proposed rule.
It is ridiculous to keep smaller investors from being able to take a short or leveraged position in the markets. I have made a good deal of money that I otherwise wouldn't have without these tools. Why should only wealthy people have access to these markets?