SEC Chairman Clayton Invites Main Street Investors to ‘Tell Us’ About Their Investor Experience

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton is inviting Main Street investors from around the country to ‘Tell Us’ about their investor experience through roundtable discussions in several cities. In these roundtables, Main Street investors will be able to speak directly with Chairman Jay Clayton and senior SEC staff about our efforts to enhance retail investor protection and promote choice and access to a variety of investment services and products. “It has been incredibly informative and gratifying to talk with investors in their own backyards about their expectations regarding relationships with their investment professionals,” said Chairman Clayton. “Our proposed rules are intended to match our rules with investor expectations and it is crucial that we hear directly from the investors themselves on how we can best ensure that result.” Already, roundtable discussions about a recently proposed rule regarding the obligations of financial professionals to investors have taken place in Houston and Atlanta…