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In my opinion, People should be allowed to choose how they can invest their money to achieve their goals. They are best suited to understand their risk appetite. Putting restrictions on where they can invest and where they can't makes two classes of people, Ones who have the privilege and others who don't. Adding special conditions/processes before they can invest will not
I find the very premise that in the largest capital market system in the world, there are regulators that are attempting to not allow inverse or leveraged ETFs. To say this is disingenuous would be taking it easy. Lazy is another word. Brokers, and financial advisors exist for reason as does compliance departments. The reality is the average investor is not going to know how to short or buy
FINRA Requests Comment on a Revised Proposal Requiring Confirmation Disclosure of Pricing Information in Corporate and Agency Debt Securities Transactions
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This is a move not only to restrict freedom but more importantly to restrict socio economic mobility. This is nothing but a way to super impose a caste system on the country to make sure the rich stay rich and everyone stays poor. There are many other ways to make sure the products offered are safe for investors than banning investors from using them unless they are
(a) Quid Pro Quo Allocations
No member or person associated with a member may offer or threaten to withhold shares it allocates of a new issue as consideration or inducement for the receipt of compensation that is excessive in relation to the services provided by the member.
(b) Spinning
(1) No member or person associated with a member may allocate shares of a new issue to any account in which
(a) Quid Pro Quo AllocationsNo member or person associated with a member may offer or threaten to withhold shares it allocates of a new issue as consideration or inducement for the receipt of compensation that is excessive in relation to the services provided by the member.(b) Spinning(1) No member or person associated with a member may allocate shares of a new issue to any account in which an
Banning retail investors from trading certain instruments is like like throwing an abuse victim in jail to protect them from their abuser. The only reason that this instrument performed so poorly over the last 2 years was the excess liquidity in the markets, and the pump and dump scams often indoctrinated into CNBC viewers. Over the year or so, we’ve witnessed the collapse of Melvin Capital,
This is nothing more than a proposal to make the rich richer & the poor loose more money in a manipulated financial system. The rich create the opportunity and capitalize on it and it's been happening for many years. How about we omit the rich from investing in these investments. We all share the air, highways, waterways, restaurants & paying taxes but only 1-social status
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SummaryFINRA’s Renewal Program supports the collection and disbursement of fees related to the renewal of broker-dealer (BD) and investment adviser (IA) registrations, exempt reporting and notice filings with participating self-regulatory organizations (SRO) and jurisdictions. FINRA communicates information about renewal fees BD and IA firms owe via a Preliminary Statement in November, and
