Public GovernorFormer Chair and CEO, Ontario Securities CommissionGovernor Since 2020Committees: Audit & Risk Committee, Executive Committee, Nominating & Governance Committee, Regulatory Oversight Committee, Regulatory Policy Committee (Chair)Professional ExperienceOntario Securities CommissionFormer Chair and Chief Executive Officer (2016 – 2020)
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Again, regulators who do not know me AT ALL want to make serious, critical decisions about my financial needs/wants. WHY??? Please, let me decide what investments are right for me and make sure, continue to keep ALL public leveraged and inverse funds/investments available for everyone. Isn't is a good thing I want to be a secure, self-supporting, productive citizen of society? It benefits me
I not a regulator should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged. Wall Street financial advisors are a joke. Anyone can lie the way they do to their clients. I should have access to the same financial products they do. I can decide my financial future better than anyone. Precluding the
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While optics are ever present around good consumer advocacy policy, creating regulatory burden is not a good way to go about this.
In the strong capitalistic financial environment that the US exists in, retail investors should have the ability to put their money in Leveraged-Inverse ETFs if they so choose as long as they are aware of the long-term risks of holding such financial
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Short selling is legal, fair, and a proper tool to use in the markets to bring down the price of an over-valued security. Why does it feel like institutions have so much power over retail? Why does it feel like I am going up against massive opponents that refuse to lose? Why do they get away with criminal activity to avoid billions in losses to only pay regulators millions in fines? It's
On my journey to investing in the stock market and am finding out that groups of Hedge funds have been manipulating stocks for their own and client’s personal gain. Where shorting a stock can be useful to help companies provide liquidity and entice investors, shorting companies to bankruptcy is not. In fact to bankrupt a company in order to make naked shorts disappear (and hence any
The revelations of opacity around short selling, trade settlement, and unlit off-exchange trading is deeply troubling and an abomination to the ideals of free and transparent capital markets. The delay and self reporting of short interest, coupled with lack of meaningful deterrents like imprisonment or material fines (fining Robinhood $70 million for their role in the January Gamestop shenanigans
Restricting retail investors' access to complex financial products reproduces an elite class of investors who can play by different rules than the average Joe. The proposed regulations seek to means-test and require convoluted checks which inherently restrict access to and mitigate the accessibility of smaller investors like myself to financial products that are an integral part of my
