To whom it may concern;
It is deeply disturbing that thee are proposed limitations on leveraged and inverse ETFs being discussed. Although concerns are valid that these investments do carry increased risk, anyone who does their due diligence reading the forms and prospectuses and looking at the one, five, and ten year charts can see whether the investment is a hedge/short term only (most inverse
I am a retail investor and have been trading various of these “complex” products for well over a decade (leveraged/inverse ETF’s and options). I find the premise of this Regulatory notice to be highly suspect – that retail investors are not sophisticated enough to be able to trade these PUBLIC instruments and should have sufficiently high impediments put in place to discourage or bar their use (
As an RIA for over two decades, I want the ability to use whatever tactical strategies I see fit for my clients as well as myself. I have used inverse funds within hedging strategies since the 1990s to no ill effect for my clients. They are extremely useful tools for hedging against large market losses, especially within Long/Short strategies. With the advent of cannabis, crypto, day-traders, and
FINRA announced today that it has fined Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC $1.6 million for the firm’s repeated failures to timely close out failed inter-dealer municipal securities transactions and to take prompt steps to obtain physical possession or control of municipal security positions that are short more than 30 calendar days, and related supervisory failures.
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NASD formed the Mutual Fund Task Force (“Task Force”) to consider issues relating to soft dollars, mutual fund portfolio transaction costs and distribution arrangements. The Task Force was established after discussions between the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and NASD staffs, to provide guidance to the SEC as it considers these issues.
The Task Force is comprised of senior industry
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NASD® has taken disciplinary actions against the following firms and individuals for violations of NASD rules; federal securities laws, rules and regulations; and the rules of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB).
