I am against the FINRA Proposed Rule #22-08. Under the long-standing disclosure-based system, investors have the right to decide which public equities, bonds and funds they want to buy. Rule #22-08 upends that principle, giving regulatorsnot methe power to decide what public securities I can and cannot invest in. Investors have the right to freely access the entirety of the public securities
While it is a worthy objective to protect prospective investors from difficult to perceive or understand risks of investments having greater than usual complexity, the history of regulations limiting certain investment categories to investors of higher net worth or sophistication has largely served to deny the broader population access to higher potential returns that the favored might enjoy.
There is no need for any further regulation of leveraged or inverse ETF's. The risks of these products are widely known and understood by the vast majority of investor. It should be noted that they are no more risky than some of the "penny stocks" or "junk bonds" that currently trade. Despite using leverage, they are often less leveraged than many publicly traded
I feel strongly that I should not have to prove to anyone that I am capable of choosing my own investments. Such a restriction would prevent me from using inverse ETFs to hedge during downtrends in the market (such as we are currently experiencing) and also prevent me from taking advantage of downtrends in the market. Cooling off periods may expose me to a complete inability to protect my money
As long as you have a margin account, leveraged and inverse funds don't matter because you can use margin leverage and short the funds. The leveraged and inverse funds are much safer to manage the risk rather than using margin because unlike leveraged margin positions, the leveraged and inverse funds never go negative price. In that sense, the leveraged and inverse funds are actually safer
I am a public investor, I opposed restrictions to my right to invest in leveraged and inverse funds because: - Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged, I am not a regulator, I am one of the public, so I should have the right being able to choose any public investments; - I understand leveraged and inverse funds and their risks, I should not have to go
I oppose restrictions on my right to invest in public investments. 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 shouldn't have to go through any special process like passing a test before I can invest in public securities, like leveraged and
As an investor I want and deserve the freedom to make my own choices about assets in which I invest. The SEC should not be taking on the role of "big brother" to oversee and perhaps overrule the decisions of millions of investors. Many of the decisions that all Americans make carry risks even greater than our investments. For example, the person we choose to marry or our career choices
I oppose any restrictions to my right to invest in leveraged or inverse funds. These funds are critical components to my investment strategy. Regulators have no right to tell me what I CANNOT invest in when such investments are in the public domain. I have a brain and I can understand risks. I control my investments - not you or any other entity. There should be no limits, restrictions or special
Creating additional layers of testing and regulations around existing investment products, especially equity types that have been around for years and are widely used, does not add any value to the existing and new investors. Every investor has it's own right to select his/her own investment options, including inverse, leveraged or cryptocurrency ETFs to name a few. Every investor already
