When it comes to retirement savings, even the most adventurous seniors may consider something routinely described as "plain vanilla": a fixed immediate annuity. With an immediate annuity, the investor pays an insurance company a lump sum in exchange for regular income payments. Both fixed and variable immediate annuities deliver income quickly, but there are differences.
More than 15,000 different stocks, options and bonds trade every day across millions of transactions. When it comes to detecting insider trading, it really is like finding a needle in a haystack. But that’s exactly what Sam Draddy and his team in the Office of Fraud Detection and Market Intelligence group do. Learn how in this episode of FINRA Unscripted.
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FINRA’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and Vulnerable Adults and Seniors Team (VAST) are issuing this Threat Intelligence Product (TIP), which provides an overview of FINRA’s observations regarding the vulnerability of senior investors to investment scams, the devastating consequences for the victims and the importance of education about financial scams to prevent initial victimization and re-victimization.
The staff granted an exemption from FINRA Rule 5131(b) with respect to purchases of “new issues” by the National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust.
On June 7, 2007, the SEC approved amendments to Rule 2790 to prohibit issuer-directed allocations of new issues to broker-dealers and to provide an exemption for issuer-directed non-underwritten offerings.
Regarding FINRA's attempt to make it more difficult to invest in leveraged and inverse funds and strategies. I object to your attempt to limit my rights to invest in the investments I choose. I should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me. It is not FINRA's right to do so.
I do not believe that I should need to pass a test that FINRA designs to prove
A diversified portfolio tends to be harder to achieve than simply following the mantra to avoid putting all of your investment eggs in one basket. This basic strategy can help, but it is often not enough to avoid concentration risk—the risk of amplified losses that may occur from having a large portion of your holdings in a particular investment, asset class or market segment relative to your overall portfolio. Learn more about concentration risk and read tips on how to manage it.
