I am strongly opposed to this proposed restriction. I understand the risks and complexities of such investments. Furthermore, I educate my clients about such alternatives and limit their use under every circumstance. This is overreach and an assault on our rights and freedoms to invest our assets as we determine appropriate.
Dear SEC, How dare you go after these instruments. Focus more of your energy on companies which do insider trading and when you do give fines they cannot be less than the money made. Inverse funds and short selling and leveraged funds give some advantages to average investors that institutional investors dont need. Please reconsider thiese "rules". Banks should not trade FDIC leveraged
The right to choose my investment I need nomtest process before investing Leverageed and inverse funds are important to my strategies
Government does not exist to restrict the freedoms of its citizens. It PROTECTS them!
The Government should not be over stepping their power by restricting us from investing in the way we choose. We know the risks and are able to make our own choices. We need to have all the options on the table.
Limiting citizens ability to trade leveraged funds, commodity funds, REITs and various other financial instruments is a direct attack on the citizenry and should be unconditional. This would be a hindrance on financial freedom in what is a world where opportunities and social mobility is increasingly hard to find. As a broker and US citizen, I vehemently oppose such a rule and think those who
Respected gentlemen/ladies, I have few things to say to you about these proposed new regulations: 1. Please let me continue to decide what I do with my money and where I put it. 2. Please let me continue to decide what my portfolio would be composed of and please stay out of my portfolio 3. Please don't tell me that I'm not intelligent enough to invest in public securities like
There is no good reason that investors of any kind should be segregated and barred from any type of public investment vehicles, especially not on account of available funds. This rule banning certain investors from inverse and leveraged investment vehicles would limit individual investment strategies and only benefit large institutions. It is fundamentally unfair and disrespectful to the
It should be a right it invest in whatever product I choose.
I should have the right to be able to choose investments that are right for me and my family - not regulators. Public investments are called PUBLIC for a reason - they should be available to the public not a select privileged group that gets to profit while others miss their chance. I am capable of understanding leveraged funds and their risks and it is my money I am taking the risk with not
