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Individual investors do NOT need additional protections on complex products. Brokers offer sufficient warnings on these products. Additionally, FINRA and the SEC provide educational resources for individual investors regarding complex products. It is the responsibility of individual investors to educate themselves and manage risk appropriately. FINRA can't protect an individual investor who
I have been investing since 1969. During that time, I have made many mistakes, some quite costly, but from each of them, I’ve learned something. I’ve never learned anything by being right. If regulation such as you are now proposing had been in effect then, I would have been prohibited from making the choices that taught me to be a better investor. People are not protected by this kind of
WASHINGTON—FINRA announced today that it has fined two FINRA-registered funding portals a combined $1.75 million for failing to comply with securities laws and rules designed to protect crowdfunding investors.
"Funding portals perform an important gatekeeping role for securities that are offered to investors under Regulation CF, the crowdfunding exemption from securities registration,
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
I firmly object to the measures being proposed in this rule, particularly any steps to restrict what products I am able to procure through my brokers as a private (retail) investor. My concern especially applies to the purchase of leveraged ETFs. As a private investor or trader, the onus has been and always will be on me to acquire the necessary knowledge, experience, and trading acumen to be
Comments: I am NOT in favor of limiting access to leveraged and inverse ETFS. I feel that they provide a substantial level of reasonably priced financial access to both downside protection and upside appreciation, when used responsibly, that is not available in any other investment product. Options can provide similar financial access to these parameters, but can be much more expensive to employ
Hi, This makes no sense! High risk assets also have high reward potential! They have a place in the portfolio regardless of net worth! Don’t skew the field against the poor in disguise of protecting the dumb! If you want to screen dumb then have a financial savviness test !