Tom Manganello - Protect Your Investments: An Update from the SEC

Protect Your Investments: An Update from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Our speaker is Tom Manganello from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy. Tom will provide an overview of the SEC’s mission and provide updates on key initiatives, as well as discussing tenets of sound investing and types of investment fraud that the SEC’s Enforcement Division encounters. The presentation will also cover ways you can protect your investments and SEC resources that can assist your efforts.

The presentation will cover several topics including

• Updates on SEC Initiatives Impacting Retail Investors
• Sound Tenets of Investing, Including Risk and Return, Asset Allocation and Diversification, and Awareness of Fees
• Tips to Spot and Avoid Scams, Including Common Investment Frauds and How to Protect Your Investments

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Tom Manganello is a senior counsel in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA). In that role, Tom researches and drafts investor alerts and bulletins, helps manage investor education content on the SEC’s website, www.Investor.gov, and conducts presentations on investor education to millennials, military, seniors, students, and other audiences, and he regularly contributes to OIEA’s social media outreach on Twitter and Facebook. Prior to joining OIEA, Tom spent ten years in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, where he investigated violations of the federal securities laws, including insider trading, Ponzi and pyramid schemes, accounting and broker fraud, and unregistered offerings. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and earned a BS in journalism from Ohio University.

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5:45 p.m. — Link Live

6:00 p.m. — Presentation begins

8:00 p.m. — Adjournment

Open to the public. AAII membership is not required to attend.

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