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It is not the responsibility of an outside party to decide what is best for me or my family. They have no knowledge of me or my situation. It is my responsibility to review, assess risk and act in my best interest. To that end all risks and rewards are my own. Please stay out and stop the over regulation and coddling based on your need to control and "protect the less/under informed".
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December 11, 2017
Lawrence Cohen
Of Counsel
Gordon Rees Scully
I am an active individual investor who uses leveraged and inverse ETFs as a component of a diversified portfolio, and I vehemently oppose restrictions or other qualification requirements for individual investors trading in publicly traded inverse and leveraged ETFs. I am fully capable of reading the prospectuses and evaluating the risks on my own as well as determining the strategy to implement
I do not support restrictions on peoples freedom to invest. While perhaps the intentions are good it is a slippery slope to start restricting trading on certain investments, such as leveraged and inverse trading vehicles. While these funds may indeed have higher risk, so do many individual stocks. Not all companies and their corresponding stocks are equal, people make investment choices all
I am a Series 7 & 66 holder, as well as a CFP. While I do not typically recommend leveraged or inverse funds for clients, I do use these funds personally and know other investors who do as well. They are high risk, but our brokerages issue required reading before allowing us to invest in these funds. I understand the risks of these funds and strongly desire to continue to use them as a
I am strongly opposed to the restrictions to my right to invest. My choices on how to invest my money should not be governed by the government, nor should I have to pass any special tests before I can invest in public securities, e.g., leveraged and inverse funds. I am capable of understanding leveraged and inverse funds and their risks, via knowledge bases that are publicly available. The
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Complex products (ex: leveraged ETFs) are already limited in several wise ways. Limiting the leverage available to 3x is a good policy. However, completely gatekeeping who can access these products would simply increase inequality and unnecessarily increase costs for consumers. Gatekeeping access to all these complex opportunities would be akin to providing the unearned rent seeking through