Before you restrict or remove an investors right to buy leveraged or inverse funds, you should consider that this structure allows educated investors to make these decisions without having to personally handle the underlying pieces that create these investments possible. Removal of these funds would not remove the risk, it would increase the risk as individuals do puts, calls, straddles, etc to
I strongly oppose this proposed rule. Having managed my own investments for years, I am well aware of the dangers and potential benefits of leveraged and inverse funds. They have been an important part of my investment portfolio for years. I choose to manage my own risk subject to my own investing objectives, and deeply oppose the government regulators trying to manage them for me and others
Dear Regulators:
I have been an investor in various markets for more than 50 years with experience ranging from stocks, bonds, and mutual funds to ETFs, commodities, real estate, complex financial instruments, and, most recently, crowd funding offerings. I understand, accept, and limit the risks of my investments. I should not be limited in my investments or be required to take creative means
Please do not restrict public purchase access to Defined Outcome ETFs, ETNs, ELNs, Market-Linked CDs, Structured Notes, Principal Protected Notes, Derivatives hedging ETFs, Opportunistic/Tactical Multi-Strategy ETFs--all of which serve to REDUCE portfolio risk. Restricting access stifles liquidity, thereby increasing volatility creating even more risk to market function and more risk to investors
I am a retail investor and use leveraged ETFs for a portion of my portfolio. Before buying these leveraged ETFs, I did a significant amount of research to understand the risks. This included back testing how the funds would behave in different market and monetary conditions. I also read the prospectuses for the funds. All this information was available and provided sufficient information on the
Why would you prevent me from making investments of my own choosing. Markets go up and down. Inverse ETFs provide a way for my self-directed IRA to make gains when the market is going down. This year alone, my IRA is up while the general market (s&p, Nasdaq, Russel) are down. I couldn't have that performance without using inverse ETFs. I understand the risk of inverse and leveraged
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Comments on Regulatory Notice 22-08 I am a self-directed retail user of investing products that is approaching retirement. I do not have a finance background per se, but I have a PhD in engineering with a career revolving around probabilistic risk assessment, and financial concepts translate well. I am not necessarily representative of the “typical” self-directed investor that the regulatory
I use the inverse funds to lower the risk in my long stock investments. I am retired and don't take much risk, so I need the inverse funds to lower the risk.
Dear FINRA, First, let me introduce myself. I am Nathan Ayotte, and I am an individual investor with personal goals of acquiring a large average annual compound rate of return each year. Personally, I have been investing in a particular triple-leveraged ETF fund based on the Nasdaq-100 (Ticker: TQQQ) for 4 years, provided by an asset management company called ProShares. The fund is a fantastic,
