Findings Reveal Decline in U.S. Adults’ Ability to Make Ends Meet and Save for Emergencies, More Households Strained by Increased Costs, and the Struggle of the Middle-Income Group
GUIDANCEPartial Customer Account TransfersEffective Date: September 13, 2004SUGGESTED ROUTINGKEY TOPICSLegal & ComplianceOperationsSenior ManagementAutomated Customer Account TransferService (ACATS)Rule 11870Executive SummaryOn July 14, 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted accelerated approval of amendments to Rule 11870 making the procedures for
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I am an individual investor, responsible for investing for my own family and retirement. I'm investing in PUBLIC investment vehicles, that currently are (and should REMAIN) available to any investor, and not just privileged hedge fund managers.
I DO NOT consent to having to take or pass any special exam in order to invest a security, which by definition is an act of risking capital in
FINRA's role is supposed to be to protect the public from unscrupulous brokerage firms and investment advisors. It's NOT supposed to be about treating the public as if they are children and need to have their hand's held while you tell us what we can and cannot do. I've been investing for over 30 years but just discovered leveraged ETFs, such as SPXL/SPXS and
I believe that the proposed regulation in its effort to protect investors way oversteps the line between being helpful by ensuring that investors can make informed choices and being harmful by assuming it knows best what those choices should be and who should be allowed to make such choices and who should be banned from making them. Leveraged funds have been a part of my portfolio, including my
Leveraged and inverse funds are a hedging tool when I think put option premiums are expensive and/or I am unable to directly short a stock or ETF in my retirement accounts. I also use them to make speculative directional bets where I deem appropriate. Position size is always key in volatile products ,that is just common sense from the offset, or quickly learned by actual trading experience...
Sirs, In response to your considering controlling my ability to invest in leveraged and inverse funds I believe I should be the one who chooses the right investments for me and my family and all puerile should have access to such investments. I've been using such investments for years and without them would never have been able to retire safely. Removing this type of investment from all
Please continue to let the small retail investors trying to build their retirement funds when the markets begin to fall, continue to trade inverse and multi-leveraged funds. IRA accounts are not allowed to short stocks and can't get margin for shorting so when markets go down so fast and stops are not always in place, we become "bag holders" in many good company stocks but because
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