A Speech by Mr. Paul Atkins, Commissioner of the SEC
By Patrick on Mar 25, 2007 in Investing
Mr. Paul Atkins, the Commissioner of the SEC is giving a speech at our local military installation this Thursday, March 29th. The topics will include personal investing, recovering from credit card debt, avoiding predatory lending, and more. His presentation is to be followed by a Q&A session.
His prepared speech seems to be high level good money sense aimed at military members (who tend to make decent but not large amounts of money).
Personally, I’m more interested in the Q&A session that follows - especially in light of the recently and heavily publicized remarks by Jim Cramer. For a good review and to see the clip, check out Jonathan’s review at My Money Blog.
My goal is to attend this presentation to give everyone an idea of what type of financial advice the SEC wants to give to Americans. I will try to get to the presentation early to get a good seat and hopefully be in a position to ask a question of Mr. Atkins.
In light of the recent Cramer comments, I was planning on asking Mr. Atkins his take on that. But, if someone beats me to it, or if the answer is ‘no comment,’ I would like to ask him something else.
This is a new blog, so to get some new readers, I am contacting some of my favorite money/financial blog authors to help me out. I would like to have readers suggest questions in the comments box of this post. Then I will narrow them down and have a vote the day before the presentation. I will try to ask the question with the most votes. Of course, I can not guarantee I will be able to ask the question (there will be a few hundred people there) but I will do my best.
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3 Comment(s)
By Brandon J on Mar 25, 2007 | Reply
As you know, I have my Money for Military blog which all my personal finance are specifically for the the military members. I’m in the Air Force.
I would like to know if he feels that these Private Equity firms that are going public are good investments. Specifically, I would like to know if Blackstone’s IPO is a good investment, since this is new investment territory.
By Patrick on Mar 25, 2007 | Reply
Brandon,
I’m pretty sure he won’t be able to answer specific questions about whether or not a certain company or IPO is a good investment. The SEC is regulatory, so I think it would be a conflict in interest to recommend/not recommend investments.
On this topic though, I could ask what changes he foresees to the stock system from Private Equity firms going public, i.e. will it get to the point that these companies take in so much money through IPOs and buy up smaller companies that they essentially become mini mutual funds.
Public Private Equity… is that contradictory?
By Joe on Mar 26, 2007 | Reply
I would ask either of two questions:
1. Is there a plan to keep America competitive with the obstacles that SOX presents since most the major IPOs last year were in foreign stock exchanges?
This next is more economics
2. If the value of the dollar theoretically makes it cheaper for other countries to buy our products, why then does the dollar continue to depreciate and our trade deficit continue to grow?