Dear FINRA professionals. Please do not take away my ability to invest in leveraged funds. I have held QLD to my great benefit for many years. Please do not take away my ability to hedge my investments with inverse funds. They are a valuable tool in times of uncertainty.
There are LOTS of really important market to spend your effort fixing -
- Disallow 12b-1 fees
- Make private exchanges disclose
Regular investors already can not purchase shares in private companies. These newly proposed rules will make access to good investment even more elitist. Frankly, this is a severe move backwards and will enrage thousands. Regulators are supposed to help and protect the people. These rules do none of that. These rules give can edge to a class of people and investors that already have a huge edge.
I am opposed to Rule #22-08. I not regulators should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me and my family. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged. I should not have to demonstrate an net worth arbitrarily set nor be required to obtain broker permission to invest. I should not have to take a test to invest in public securities
All financial market participants should be able to make their own investment choices. There are already too many restrictions on net worth allowing the rich to make investments that others cannot access. We dont need FINRA or any other government agency to tell us what to invest in and what not to invest in. Vanguard is already doing this and I am taking my business to another brokerage. Also,
As an investor for over 50 years, I am strongly opposed to this proposed action. Leveraged and inverse funds are essential to my investment strategy. The market does not always go up. Private investors need access to affordable hedge tools in order to protect and insure the wealth they have accumulated. The ultra rich do it. Why would you restrict my access to this important strategy. I do not
Summary
In April 2018, FINRA launched a retrospective review of the annual compliance meeting (ACM) requirement in Rule 3110(a)(7) and corresponding Supplementary Material .04 (SM .04), to assess its effectiveness and efficiency.1 The review is part of an ongoing initiative to periodically look back at a rule or set of rules to ensure they remain relevant and appropriately designed to achieve
The lack of regulation and accountability from governmental security agencies allowing hedge funds to manipulate markets through various tactics like synthetic shorting is nothing short of financial treason against the American people. To allow these large privately owned institutions the ability to cheat and pray upon average American citizens and investors is an absolute mockery of the
I have been investing successfully in leveraged and inverse ETFs for several decades, including currently. I am a non-professional private investor. I believe there should be no regulations which limit my ability to trade these funds like any other ETF or security. I should be able to chose the investments that are most suitable for me and my family, and these should not be available to just
Limiting the options for individuals to invest in public investments, which any sort of investment, whether its a security, ETF, CD, stock, fund, note, trust, etc, whether its complex, or not is not justified. Simple investments would still have a risk, irregardless of banning and limiting certain individuals to be involved in any sort of investments.
Any sort of investment, simple, or complex
I am aware of the restrictions that may be introduced on my leveraged investments and I strongly appose any limitations likely to be considered on these investments! As a private investor I should be allowed to choose where to invest my capital as I take full responsibility for the outcomes of my investment strategy. I understand leveraged and inverse funds and am fully aware of the risks
