The Senior Investors and Trusted Contact Persons topic of the 2025 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
I have a right to invest freely in what I deem to be an acceptable risk for myself and family. Inverse and leveraged funds help me prospect and hedge against unanticipated moves in the market. By forcing people to jump through hoops by passing certain tests etc. it just creates more headache and slows down the efficiency of markets.
I want to make my own decision regarding leveraged investments. If you take this away from investors you must stop margin trading also. I have been using leveraged investments for years and do not need any further training or tests. A simple warning like I received years ago is enough.
Please do not restrict what I may do with my investments. Small investors should not have to pass tests to show their intelligence concerning anything they choose to invest in. All investments should be available to us. I do not need or want these restrictions imposed on me, as I'm sure many of my peers feel as well.
Me- not regulators should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me and my family.Public investments should be available to all public not just the priviledged. I shouldnt have to go through any special process like passing a test to invest in public securities. I am capable of making inverse and leveraged funds and their risk.
What right do you have to limit mine? Investments should be between my broker and me. You have no business testing, gatekeeping, or knowing my income. Worst of all, cooling off periods? Day traders tend to make multiple trades a day; don't ruin an entire way of life.
I was in the financial arena for over forty year and have handled my own investmennts for at least that long. I don't need FINRA to tell me how to invest or limit my access to investments I deem beneficial to myself. At 81 years of age, I am not about to submit to your testting of my abilities.
Give it a rest!!
A person who would like to invest money they have earned should be able to invest in any way they see fit, without the need to take special tests or courses, or have additional imposed restrictions based on net worth or any other financial regulation that limits how or where they choose to invest their money.
This is outrageous. Individuals should be allowed the same instruments as the privileged few. I should be able to choose the investments that are right for me and m family.I am capable of understanding leveraged and inverse funds and their risk. I do not need to pass a "test" to invest in these instruments. I am currently using a inverse fund and it is helping to protect (hedge
Leveraged and Inverse funds are important investment strategies to head against. Such investments should be available to the general public like me who are not privileged - we don't need tests to understand leveraged / inverse funds and the risks they entail. Do not make regulations that only benefit the super rich - give equal opportunity to everyone.
