Leveraged and inverse funds, like all nearly all investments, are risky. Adequate disclosure of risks should be sufficient for individual investor protection. If regulators do not believe that investors understand the risks from the prospectus, then what does this say about efforts to protect investors in domains beyond these funds? Moreover, what risks are unique to these funds that regulators
Ah yes, quite a brilliant regulatory notice. Only us ~~~~sophisticated~~~~~~~~ investors are worthy enough to trade such complex financial instruments. The peasantry are wholly incapable of understanding the Bitz-Coins on our academic level. The only issue with this proposal is that it does not go far enough to """""protect"""
I see restricting access to the different types of investment products as overbearing and manipulative of market forces.
The use of inverse and leverage funds are an important market access for all people in the country, for a variety of purposes. They should not be a core part of a portfolio, but do serve a place in building a well-balanced financial plan.
For example, if I am looking to
To Whom It May Concern:
Your recent notice, FINRA Regulatory Notice #22-08, seems very problematic for everyday investors. Leveraged and/or Inverse funds serve very important functions for retail public investors. Most of the time, they provide the only way for a retail investor to cost effectively hedge a position or a certain exposure. For example, earlier this year my wife and I were waiting
These are products that are used by sophisticated investors who understand the risks and are willing to take them as part of their overall strategy for their reward.
Restricting access or imposing onerous criteria to meet before an investor can trade/invest in them goes against every principle of a free-market economy.
The entire premise of this regulatory notice is false, and data mining is used
As a retail investor, I am concerned about the fairness of the current financial system. Having read many theoretical posts on r/Superstonk about the economy and doing my own research, I believe that more regulation on shorting is necessary in order to avoid the unfair devaluation of companies and protect smaller companies from its effects. In particular, more needs to be done about Fail-to-
FINRA is a U.S. based self-regulatory organization. FINRA does not have offices outside of the United States or direct goods and services to non-U.S. residents. Despite this, interactions between EU residents and the FINRA Online Services may occur. As FINRA is committed to protecting the privacy and security of personal information this supplemental privacy policy (“SPE”) applies to those
Government is supposed to be here to provide the services that the citizen can't provide, like military, international policies, etc. This government wasn't set up to be babysitters for its citizens. Citizen can make their own decisions, be they bad ones or good ones. Every day we make decisions about our lives without government intervention. Some of these decisions literally cost
I have previously submitted my thoughts but want to take a minute to reiterate them. Leveraged and inverse funds play a very important role in my personal investments along with our corporate investment strategy for clients. When used by professionals, for clients who understand them, they are very useful tools for actually reducing risk and enhancing returns. This should be left to the free
I am a retail investor, and have a small part of my IRA accounts that I manage myself, while placing the bulk of the funds into index funds and the like. However, I believe that I should have the right and access to all the same financial instruments that professional investors do for the portion that I manage myself. From time to time, I use leveraged and inverse funds. This are risky and
