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
Good morning. It’s great to have this opportunity to be with you today.
My colleague in Member Regulation, Sales Practice, Mike Rufino, will be talking about FINRA’s regulatory and examination priorities during the next session, so I won’t steal Mike’s thunder and tell you everything that he is going to say. Rather, I want to take a step back and take this opportunity to talk about something
The Best Execution section of the 2022 Report on FINRA’s Risk Monitoring and Examination Activities (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) relevant regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) exam findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
Executive Summary
The Federal Election Campaign Act requires federal candidates and political committees that influence federal elections to file various reports and statements with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and state governments, including lists of individual contributors. These reports and statements may be inspected and copied by anyone, but the names and addresses of individual
INFORMATIONAL
New Registration Category-Rules And Examination
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Continuing Education/Testing/Qualification
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Registration
Senior Management
Training
Limited Representative-Private Securities Offerings (Series 82)
NASD Rule 1032
Qualification Examinations
TO: All NASD Members and Level 2 and Level 3 Subscribers
An additional 16 securities will join the 570 already trading in the NASDAQ National Market System on Tuesday, November 8, 1983. (The 570 include the 50 issues scheduled to join NMS on October 18.) These securities have met the NMS mandatory designation requirements, which include an average trading volume of 600,000 shares a month for six
On This PageForm U4 Explanation of TermsForm U5 Explanation of TermsForms BD & BDW Explanation of TermsForm BR Explanation of TermsForm U4 Explanation of TermsThe following definitions apply to terms that are italicized in Form U4:AffiliatedMeans under common ownership or control.Affiliated FirmMeans a broker-dealer under common ownership or control with the filing firm.ApplicantMeans the
Executive Summary
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently approved two NASD proposals to amend the NASD's options position-limit rule, Article III, Section 33(b)(3) of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice. On January 22, 1996, the SEC approved an NASD proposal to add two new position-limit tiers for option classes overlying equity securities that meet certain criteria for high
Dear FINRA, First, let me introduce myself. I am Nathan Ayotte, and I am an individual investor with personal goals of acquiring a large average annual compound rate of return each year. Personally, I have been investing in a particular triple-leveraged ETF fund based on the Nasdaq-100 (Ticker: TQQQ) for 4 years, provided by an asset management company called ProShares. The fund is a fantastic,
