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Today Niels continues his conversation with Jennifer Sunu, who is the director of compliance at the NFA, Arthur Bell, CPA and managing member of Bell Tower LLC, and JP Bruynes, who is a partner at the law firm Akin Gump.
Listen in to today’s episode as we focus on how regulators are helping and sometimes hurting managers and clients, the importance of cyber security as a CTA, the way that cryptocurrencies have changed the way we trade, some of the best things that have happened to managed futures over the last twenty years, and how the market has been affected.
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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- The dangers of over-regulation
- What we can learn from blow-ups at the manager level and how to avoid them in the future
- Why investors need to do their due diligence to avoid fraud
- What the NFA considers in reviewing educational and promotional materials
- How to ensure your promotional material is meeting NFA guidelines
- Why pundits on news shows are allowed to make predictions on markets that may be just an educated guess
- The importance of cyber security and how to you can protect yourself
- What impact cryptocurrencies may have on futures markets
- How regulators are working to help clients avoid unrealistic expectations in cryptocurrencies
- The best things that have happened to managed futures in the last twenty years
- What has changed regarding the Volcker rule in the past few years
- How flat fee products are changing the industry
- Why we need to worry about the “race to zero”
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