FINRA Rule 4111(b) requires the Department of Member Supervision (Department) to calculate annually a member firm’s "Preliminary Identification Metrics" to determine whether the firm meets the "Preliminary Criteria for Identification."1 A key driver of that is whether a member firm’s Preliminary Identification Metrics meet quantitative, risk-based "Preliminary
Are you considering exchanging a variable annuity that you currently own with a new one? Replacing one variable annuity with another should involve an analysis and comparison of the complex features of each security. You should exchange your annuity only when it is the smartest move for you.
Dear regulators. How about you do your jobs and protect the investor public by enforcing the laws concerning illegal activities being openly used by hedge fund managers to manipulate the markets to their benefit? It's outrageous that entities who profit ( in insane amounts ) are allowed to control not only fringe investing techniques, but to operate as market makers to directly benefit their
I am disturbed and appalled to hear that FINRA is planning to prohibit my ability to invest in leveraged and inverse funds. I adamantly oppose to any regulator deciding how I should invest! I am angered by this arrogant and tyrannical effort to restrict how a consumer should invest his/her money. This is a clear and coordinated attack on the retail consumer to place the wealthy at a clear
How dare you even think about making it more difficult for the general public to save for retirement. That you lump inverse funds along with leveraged funds is particularly damaging; you want the general public to try shorting stocks, really? You think that's less difficult than buying an inverse fund? Inverse ETFs are extremely important to my own trading, and have saved me more than
To whom it may concern,
Please do NOT restrict access to public investments to only your preferred group of wealthy individuals. As a non-accredited retail investor it is incredibly frustrating to be denied access to the same investments that other people have access to simply because my portfolio isn't large enough. The proposed regulations only serve to prohibit retail investors such
Comments: I do believe having transparency is important. Regulators have done great things in the past to clarify concepts that a layman does not interact with regularly. Thanks to regulators, banks have to disclose APR's with clients, ensuring that the risks are fully understood. However, I feel that this level of scrutiny is unwarranted, biased, exclusionary, and has an unfair impact
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SEC Approves Amendments to FINRA Rule 4210 (Margin Requirements) to Establish Margin Requirements for Covered Agency Transactions
