Leveraged and inverse funds are an important part of our overall investment strategies. We use them as a limited portion of our overall portfolio to achieve specific goals. We are fully capable of understanding leveraged and inverse fund and their risks. We should be able to choose the public investments that are right for us and public investments should be available to all of the public, not
allow investors to act in a market economy
I am against any regulation of my buying inverse funds without jumping thru regulatory hoops. As investors, we always have to rely on our own good judgment and due diligence, our society is being regulated to death! I use these funds as part of my overall strategy to protect my other investments.
I am a private investor, I should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me and family. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged. I shouldn't have to go through any special process like passing a test before I can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. I have taken several investment courses; I am
I am fully aware of how these work and choose to accept greater risk on a small portion of my investments.
I am now retired and age 76 but worked most of my career investing as a fiduciary on behalf of pensions, foundations, and endowment founds. I now invest my own IRA via ETrade and have sometimes used leveraged ETFs to manage risk. For example, since I hold some longer term corporate bonds I recently used the TBT ProShares ultrashort Treasury bond to hedge against the rise in interest rates. Please
Dear regulators, I am very concerned about your new proposals to limit the ability of individual investors to invest in leveraged or inverse funds. While this is being pursued under the guise of protecting individual investors, it instead harms individual investors by limiting their ability to invest in vehicles which are available to institutional investors. While I can understand having
I oppose your desire to restrict my freedom to choose what I can do with the money I earned. Your regulatory body has no right to take away my liberties in this manner. Ideas such as this run counter to American ideals. Unelected technocrats like yourselves must stop burdening citizens and eroding our freedom with ideas such as this.
I want the freedom to use the money that I have earned and invested where I want.
I invest in leveraged funds. I would not meet all the criteria, but I know what I'm doing. Please do not take away my financial strategy.
