FINRA Board, This is a major regulatory overreach. I would hope that this rule regarding individual investors' access to "complex" investments was proposed with the best of intentions - to protect investors from tking on unnecessary risk. But it is not up to you to determine the level of risk that an individual investor is willing to take on - it is up to the investor, and the
While I understand that this RFC is for members to provide feedback, I would like to provide some general comments as an individual investor who makes extensive use of geared ETFs. Accordingly, most of my comments are "geared" towards them (sorry, had to!). For your consideration:
1. There is no relationship or similarity between the various products outlined in this RFC.
I oppose restrictions being considered associated with certain investment instruments, e.g., cryptocurrency funds. Various financial instruments are critical to portfolio diversification and risk mitigation. Commodities, precious metals, real estate, hedge funds, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, annuities, insurance policies, trading on margin, short-sales, futures, and
It is my responsibility as an investor to understand the dangers of any investment I make, not limited to leveraged funds. In fact, Leveraged ETFs are much safer than certain other instruments such as options.
Leveraged ETFs provide a valuable addition to various portfolios for hedging and certain long term risk parity portfolios.
Do not restrict these to individuals with high networth
It is of utmost importance that people have the full freedom to deploy their money into whatever they want without major obstructions.
As it is, to protect investors, ETFs already have disclaimers, which spell out the risks. In addition, some broker accounts won't even let investors buy some ETFs or penny stocks unless the risk profile is set to be "aggressive".
When
Leveraged ETFs are a valuable tool investors utilize to deploy certain strategies. While the risk is amplified, the return can be as well. Further, while some argue the risk is too great, investors have the right to take risks within their individual risk appetite
Regulations prevent small investors like myself from participating in venture capital and hedge funds, keeping more wealth in the hands of the wealthy.
UPRO's leveraged investment options are a critical component of my portfolio. Leveraged, they increase risk, but are also tied to market performance which diminishes single company/industry risk whereby I can choose the risk level I want
It has come to our attention that under the regulations being considered by FINRA I may not be able to buy leveraged and inverse funds like TQQQ, SQQQ and others. I would like yo urge you to NOT implement these regulations. These funds are important to my and my husbands investment strategies and restricting these funds will hurt both us and others we have encouraged over the years to use to
FINRA,
A little bit of background:
I am self taught in the domain of investment finance. The extent of formal financial education were a handful of economics classes and an accounting class in college. Year to Day, I am beating the S&P500 in my self-directed brokerage account because I taught myself how financial markets work with various resources publicly available.
My comment:
I as
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