A diversified portfolio tends to be harder to achieve than simply following the mantra to avoid putting all of your investment eggs in one basket. This basic strategy can help, but it is often not enough to avoid concentration risk—the risk of amplified losses that may occur from having a large portion of your holdings in a particular investment, asset class or market segment relative to your overall portfolio. Learn more about concentration risk and read tips on how to manage it.
Summary
In February 2012, pursuant to an SEC order, FINRA established an accounting support fee (GASB Accounting Support Fee) to adequately fund the annual budget of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). The GASB Accounting Support Fee is collected on a quarterly basis from member firms that report trades to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB). Each member firm’s
Held between November 2021 and August 2024, the Disclosure Reporting Webinar Series provided basic information about different types of reportable events. These sessions were designed for compliance professionals at FINRA-member broker-dealers who submit filings and documents to FINRA regarding disclosure events that are reportable for registered representatives and firms.The content of the
TO: All NASD Members, NASDAQ Companies and Other Interested Persons
LAST DATE FOR COMMENT: AUGUST 30, 1985.
The National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., is requesting comment from NASD members, NASDAQ issuers and other interested persons on certain concepts related to voting rights of the shareholders of companies whose securities are included in the NASDAQ National Market System (
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) a proposed rule change to extend the current pilot program related to FINRA Rule 11892 (Clearly Erroneous Transactions in Exchange-Listed Securities) (“Clearly Erroneous Transaction Pilot” or “Pilot”) until October 20, 2022.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to extend the expiration date of the temporary amendments set forth in SR-FINRA-2020-015 and SR-FINRA-2020-027 from December 31, 2021, to March 31, 2022.
Thank you for your letter of February 9, 2022, requesting information regarding the arbitrator selection process FINRA Dispute Resolution Services (DRS) uses, and how at process. FINRA takes this issue very seriously and is fully committed to ensuring the integrity of the arbitrator selection process.
All capital acquisition brokers are subject to FINRA Rule 4111.
Adopted by by SR-FINRA-2020-041 eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
Selected Notice: 21-34.
Comments: I do believe having transparency is important. Regulators have done great things in the past to clarify concepts that a layman does not interact with regularly. Thanks to regulators, banks have to disclose APR's with clients, ensuring that the risks are fully understood. However, I feel that this level of scrutiny is unwarranted, biased, exclusionary, and has an unfair impact
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
On November 24, 1992, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the adoption of amendments to its Net Capital Rule, Rule 15c3-1 (Rule). Except for the minimum increases scheduled to
