May 9, 2022 Jennifer Piorko Mitchell, JD, MBA Office of the Corporate Secretary FINRA 1735 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 Re: FINRA Regulatory Notice 22-08 Dear Ms. Mitchell: Thank you for giving the public an opportunity to comment on the Regulatory Notice 22-08. I am a professor of accounting at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. I oppose the rules proposed in Notice 22-08. These rules
I have been responsibly using leveraged ETFs as a single-digit percentage of my portfolio for almost three years now, and I personally find the notion that they now could be restricted from individual investors to be utterly outrageous. I am stuck dealing with grossly subpar investments via my pension and Social Security (while I understand the rationale for Social Security writ large), and I
I not regulators should be able to choose the public
investments that are right for me. Public investments, including leveraged funds 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 you can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. I should not be paying
To whom it may concern,
I am a retail investor with over 20 years of investment experience. I am a software engineer, and generally a nerd that tries to built expertise in anything I have interest in.
I understand the risks involved in the use of leveraged funds, and they are vital to some of the strategies I employ. One of my strongest portfolios is currently based on Ray Dalio's All
I am an experienced, knowledgeable, and capable, investor. I should be able to choose the investments that are right for me, without government interference in the form of regulatory restrictions. Burdensome regulations would hit small individual investors like me the hardest, while institutional investment firms and very rich investors would retain yet another advantage (among the many that they
The term "complex products" is a mask on an initiative aiming to limit the ability of lower net worth individuals to invest in the same high reward vehicles as their higher net worth counterparts. This regulation is another permutation of limiting access under the guise of limited understanding. Regarding those who actually have a limited understanding, why let them invest in
I recently learned of Finra's interest in taking the choice of how an individual investor wants to invest away from them. Regulators should not have the ability to limit how an individual wants to invest his/her funds. There are already plenty of government regulations that limit how much we can invest in tax deferred options. The government should also not limit investment options to just
Inverse and leveraged funds are a valuable tool for an investor. Some brokerage firms have already refused to trade these in order to "protect the investor". I am a 76 year old retired teacher/mathematician/programmer. I have enough fixed income to retire comfortably. But I have lots of savings that can not earn a reasonable income in the current market and low interest rates. Over my
FINRA invites member firms that participate, or plan to participate, in the security-based swap (SBS) market to provide views and information with regard to broker-dealer SBS activities, including the application of FINRA rules to those activities. Any other interested party is also invited to submit views and information. FINRA welcomes views and information on all aspects of SBS activity,
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