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Dec 29
Investment Scams May Seek to Exploit Natural Disasters – Investor Alert

Sept. 29, 2020 After a natural disaster strikes, fraudsters may try to take advantage of individuals who want to help fund recovery efforts or who receive lump sum insurance payouts. Fraudsters may use recent natural disasters, including Hurricane Laura, Hurricane Sally, and the wildfires on the West Coast, to lure victims into investment scams. These […]

Dec 29
Investor Bulletin: Publicly Traded Closed-End Funds

Sept. 25, 2020 The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Bulletin to provide investors information about closed-end funds that are traded on national securities exchanges. It is important to understand them and their risks before investing.   What are closed-end funds? A closed-end fund is one of three main types […]

Dec 29
Investor Bulletin: Publicly Traded Business Development Companies (BDCs)

Sept. 25, 2020 The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Bulletin to provide investors information about business development companies, or BDCs, that are traded on national securities exchanges. It is important to understand them before investing.   What are BDCs? BDCs are a type of closed-end investment fund. They are […]

Dec 29
Investor Bulletin: Interval Funds

Sept. 25, 2020 The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Bulletin to provide investors information about interval funds. Interval funds are legally classified as closed-end funds, a type of investment company, but they have some distinctive features that make them different from typical closed-end funds. Some important features of interval […]

Dec 29
FBI and OIEA Warn Public that Fraudsters are Targeting Owners of Timeshares in Mexico

Sept. 17, 2020 The FBI Criminal Investigative Division and the Office of Investor Education and Advocacy of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) would like to warn consumers of a recent increase in fraudulent schemes targeting owners of timeshare properties in Mexico. These scams typically involve individuals alleging to be representatives of a brokerage firm, […]

Dec 29
Colloquium on new challenges in financial regulation

On Friday, 19 November 2021, the Chairman of the FSMA and Vice-Chairman of IOSCO, Mr Jean-Paul Servais, spoke at a colloquium held at the Sorbonne University in Paris. The event was organized by the LabEx ReFi, a multidisciplinary research laboratory dedicated to the study and evaluation of regulatory policies. The objective of the laboratory is […]