Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to express my fear and displeasure in relation to the regulations being considered by FINRA that would prevent investors like myself from accessing products like leveraged ETFs.
I have worked for a decade in the financial industry designing systematic financial products and am a CFA charterholder.
I, like many others, have held positions in leveraged investments
I urge you NOT to restrict ordinary investors from trading leveraged and inverse ETFs for the following reasons:
1. Inverse and inverse leveraged ETFs are often the only vehicles available to ordinary investors to hedge their cash and retirement accounts in a down market, or even to profit from down markets. Wealthy investors have many means to do this. Taking these products away from ordinary
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Under the regulations being considered by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA),
you may not be able to buy leveraged and inverse funds and dozens of other popular
investments deemed to be complex unless you:
Pass a regulator-imposed test of your specialized investment knowledge
Demonstrate a high net worth
Get special approval from your broker
Attest to reading certain
FINRA requests comment on two proposed changes to the TRACE reporting rules that were recommended by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee. The proposed changes would require firms to: (1) identify corporate bond trades where the price of the trade is based on a spread to a benchmark Treasury security that was agreed upon earlier in the day (i.e
Investor trust and confidence have plummeted to historic lows. But if there is a silver lining amidst these dark clouds, it is that the turmoil creates an opportunity to “fix the plumbing” of the U.S., and global, regulatory architecture – patching the leaks, but also modernizing the piping in such a way to promote market stability and investor confidence, and lay the groundwork for renewed growth and stability.
TRACE data is available from a number of market data vendors, both via display applications and data feeds (and/or FTP files). Below is a partial listing of market data vendors that make TRACE data available as part of their service(s). Additional vendors may exist but have elected not to be listed. Please note the information presented has been provided to the Financial Industry Regulatory
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The study, Investing 2020: New Accounts and the People Who Opened Them, found that
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