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  • FINRA, SEC Warn Retail Investors About Investing In Leveraged Or Inverse ETFs

    Date 18/08/2009

    The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have issued an Investor Alert called Leveraged and Inverse ETFs: Specialized Products with Extra Risks for Buy-and-Hold Investors warning retail investors of the risks associated with investing in these highly complex financial products. This Investor Alert follows a recent FINRA Regulatory Notice reminding securities firms and brokers of their sales practice obligations relating to leveraged

  • FTSE Environmental Technology 50 Index Selected By New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF)

    Date 18/08/2009

    FTSE Group, the award-winning global index provider, today confirms that the FTSE Environmental Technology 50 Index has been licensed to one of the US’s largest public pension plans, the New York State Common Retirement Fund. NYSCRF will benchmark $100 million to the index as part of an allocation to clean technology. Institutional investor interest in the environmental technology sector is growing quickly in line with government plans to move to a low carbon economy.

  • CBOE Receives SEC Approval For Tied Hedge Procedure

    Date 18/08/2009

    The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced it received Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval for an exception to the Exchange's current rules restricting anticipatory hedging.The new "tied hedge" procedures allow firms to obtain a related stock, security futures or futures hedge prior to presenting the tied hedge order to CBOE's open-outcry trading community for execution.

  • FINRA Expels Maximum Financial For Net Capital, AML, Other Violations While Engaging In Retail Foreign Currency Exchange Business - CEO Barred As A Principal, Suspended For Nine Months In All Capacities

    Date 18/08/2009

    The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has expelled Maximum Financial Investment Group, Inc. of Southfield, MI, for violations arising out of its retail foreign currency (forex) business, as well as for repeated violations of FINRA registration and related rules.

  • CME Group Names Timothy Andriesen As Managing Director, Agricultural Commodities

    Date 18/08/2009

    CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that it has named Timothy Andriesen as Managing Director, Agricultural Commodities. Andriesen, 49, will be responsible for developing and executing the global business and sales strategy for the company's agricultural commodities product line. He will report to Barry Goldblatt, CME Group Managing Director, Commodities, Equities and Energy Products and will be based in Chicago.