Managing a retirement account takes some work. Your plan administrator generally handles your portfolio's actual transactions and the recordkeeping and reporting, but you decide when and how to reallocate and rebalance your assets.Beyond keeping tabs on the performance of your portfolio, you’ll want to know your plan’s rules and procedures and how much your plan and its investments are
SummaryFINRA, as a self-regulatory organization, is informed by and benefits from engagement with and the expertise of our member firms, investors, and other interested parties on regulatory and policy initiatives related to FINRA’s mission of promoting market integrity and investor protection.The purpose of this Notice is to promote and provide an overview of the various opportunities for
FINRA is reviewing activities of member firms acting as or working with placement agents in soliciting and/or obtaining business with municipalities and public pension funds.
Dear Regulators,
I should be able to make my own investment decisions in publicly traded assets based on my understanding of the risks involved in leveraged, Covered Call, inverse, and non K1 commodity funds without the burden of passing additional tests and the elitist nonsense of minimum asset amounts. My traditional "conservative" stock/bond mix portfolios have all dropped
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The Department of Treasury (Treasury) asked the NASD® to remind its members about regulations issued by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). These regulations require broker/dealers to block1 accounts and other assets of countries identified as threats to national security
Leveraged funds and ETF's are important tools to allow investors to gain market leverage at a manageable level of risk, compared to traditional methods of leverage, such as the use of margin. Investors who research and learn the appropriate use of leveraged funds are able to use them as a part of an overall portfolio and generate leverage without jeopardizing their entire net worth. In
I find the very premise that in the largest capital market system in the world, there are regulators that are attempting to not allow inverse or leveraged ETFs. To say this is disingenuous would be taking it easy. Lazy is another word. Brokers, and financial advisors exist for reason as does compliance departments. The reality is the average investor is not going to know how to short or buy
The Market Access Controls section of the 2018 Report on Exam Findings informs member firms’ compliance programs by describing recent findings and observations from FINRA’s examinations, and, in certain cases, also providing a summary of effective practices.
1423 Leslie Avenue Alexandria, VA 22301 August 7, 2023 Jennifer Piorko Mitchell Office of the Corporate Secretary FINRA 1735 K Street, NW Washington DC 20006-1506 RE: Rule 5110 and Regulatory Notice 23-09 Dear Ms. Mitchell: Thank you for the opportunity to comment on FINRA rules impacting capital formation. CrowdCheck, together with its affiliated law firm, CrowdCheck Law, was formed for the
As a small retail investor investing for me and my families future I’m glad to hear that sunlight is finally leaking into the shorting faculties of our market. Accurate and honest short interest reporting helps reassure me as an individual investor that larger institutions aren’t abusing gaps in reporting to get an unfair advantage and add instability and volatility to our markets. That being
