Additional Guidance on FINRA’s New Suitability Rule
I understand the financial risks I am taking and it's not a private organizations place to limit my ability to make investments.
I don't want to be parented by a government agency that wants to take away investor's rights and destroy a free market system wherein investor's determine their own suitability and investment goals. The proposed changes are an invasion into investor's private affairs. I very well can read a prospectus and decide for myself without any further governmental
Dear FINRA, 5-6-22
I am a private investor who has been investing in the markets for the last 40 years, and have been successful using inverse funds, to include SH, PSQ, DOG to hedge against volatility, and frequent downturns in the markets. I do not think any regulator will be able to know more than I do about my own families personal financial situation. Passing a test first, seems
I oppose any regulations by FINRA that would restrict my ability to invest in leveraged or inverse funds or any other public securities. Private investors are expected to understand that all investments involve risk. Perhaps a disclaimer should be required by all brokers that investing in certain types of funds will expose the investor to more risk than usual.
Ive already accepted the risk if using leveraged ETFs, please dont take away these options for how I invest my private money
FINRA Rule 2330 (Members’ Responsibilities Regarding Deferred Variable Annuities) establishes sales practice standards regarding recommended purchases and exchanges of deferred variable annuities, including requiring a reasonable belief that the customer has been informed of the various features of annuities (such as surrender charges, potential tax penalties, various fees and costs, and market risk); and, prior to recommending the purchase or exchange of a deferred variable annuity, requiring reasonable efforts to determine the customer’s age, annual income, investment experience, investment objectives, investment time horizon, existing assets and risk tolerance.
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For decades, Americans of all incomes have looked to the investment markets as an opportunity to build wealth and achieve goals such as putting their kids through college and retiring among other things. Over the years those opportunities have continued to increase with increasing levels of innovative offerings from simple stocks and bonds to mutual funds, ETF’s, IPO’s, dividends,
March 1, 2010
Dear Executive Representative:
FINRA is issuing its 2010 annual examination priorities letter to highlight new and existing areas of significance to FINRA's examination program for the year. This year's annual letter goes beyond the focus of FINRA's Market Regulation and Member Regulation Departments to also include topics that are of heightened importance to the
