Comments on: U.S. brokerage regulator warns of ‘unpleasant surprises’ on ETNs http://blogs.reuters.com/financial-regulatory-forum/2012/07/11/u-s-brokerage-regulator-warns-of-unpleasant-surprises-on-etns/ Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:29:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: thusson http://blogs.reuters.com/financial-regulatory-forum/2012/07/11/u-s-brokerage-regulator-warns-of-unpleasant-surprises-on-etns/comment-page-1/#comment-13529 thusson Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:26:55 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/financial-regulatory-forum/?p=9344#comment-13529 The sorts of problems encountered by ETNs like TVIX, GAZ, and AMJ made headlines but most media coverage did not fully articulate the underlying issues. The FINRA notice provides more detail as to the actual cause of those trading anomalies and how they could affect other ETNs too. My colleagues and I have posted a number of publications which provide detailed explanation of the leveraged and inverse ETFs, commodities ETFs and VIX-related ETNs mentioned in the FINRA Investor Alert. Our research papers can be found at http://www.slcg.com/research.php The sorts of problems encountered by ETNs like TVIX, GAZ, and AMJ made headlines but most media coverage did not fully articulate the underlying issues. The FINRA notice provides more detail as to the actual cause of those trading anomalies and how they could affect other ETNs too.

My colleagues and I have posted a number of publications which provide detailed explanation of the leveraged and inverse ETFs, commodities ETFs and VIX-related ETNs mentioned in the FINRA Investor Alert. Our research papers can be found at http://www.slcg.com/research.php

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