Reynolds Holding

JULY 18, 2022

Congress and regulators fear NFTs are being used as lures to raise capital without fulfilling any of the legal requirements that promoters of such investment vehicles are required to fulfill. Fungibility means that a good or asset is interchangeable. What is an NFT? For example, one U.S. dollar can be exchanged for another.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For much of the last two years, rather than teach my classes in a classroom, I taught my classes from my home office, making a few low-cost, low-tech investments to improve my set up. As we get ready for the spring, I am excited, perhaps more so than usual, because I hope to finally be in a real classroom, instead of online, for my classes.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 29, 2021

I don't have an axe to grind in this fight, since I don't own GameStop or care much about hedge funds, but I am interested in how this episode will affect overall markets and whether I need to change the ways in which I invest and trade. But what if you think a stock is too highly priced and is likely to go down?

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 3, 2024

It is good to be back at SEC Speaks and to know that the content shared here today is available for anyone who may wish to access it. Let me start by reminding you that my views are my own as a Commissioner and not necessarily those of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or my fellow Commissioners. So everybody silently complies.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 24, 2021

As we approach the mid point of 2021, financial markets, for the most part, have had a good year so far. For those who are older or grew up in countries with high inflation, inflation is far more than a number, wreaking havoc on savings and exposing fault lines in economies and societies. What is inflation?

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Brian DeChesare

JANUARY 5, 2022

Crypto (Bitcoin and Ethereum): 16% [Up 1%]. Angel Investments: 4% [Down 1% – recording these at historical cost]. I approach my investing differently from most people because: I don’t aim to match or beat specific indices. But that’s not because they were “boring.”. Cash & Savings: 14% [Down 8%]. Gold: 10% [Down 1%].

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 22, 2024

Today, I will share my thoughts on how we might fill this canvas, with a focus on retail investors and early-stage start-up companies, as opposed to institutional investors and late-stage private companies or pooled investment vehicles. Alan served as Director of the Division of Corporation Finance (“CorpFin”) from 1970 to 1976.

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Brian DeChesare

JULY 6, 2022

Toward the end of 2020, my most crypto-bullish friend showed me a “DeFi” service that allegedly paid 10 – 15% yields for investing. I stayed far away from this service, while he presumably put in some money. Real Estate (Owned Property + Investment Funds): 15% [Up 5%]. Crypto (Bitcoin and Ethereum): 2% [Down 14%].

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Since so much of Paytm’s success has been driven by the rise if smart phone usage among Indian consumers, and the concurrent rise in mobile payments for goods and services, I will start with a review of that rise, before looking at how Paytm has put itself in position to take advantage of that market shift.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 11, 2022

It’s good to be back with the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) again. Thank you for the kind introduction. As is customary, I’d like to note that I’m not speaking on behalf of my fellow Commissioners or the SEC staff. A decade ago, I called it a “new era for the swaps marketplace.” [1].

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 26, 2022

In the declining world of crypto, President Biden, with a March 2022 executive order, initiated a federal government-wide review of digital assets after cases of crypto were identified as being involved in illegal transactions such as money laundering, tax evasion, or trading of illegal goods. On June 10, 2022, U.S.

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