Was held by the heritage foundation. Welcome to those of you joining us, on our website or in house. We ask for a courtesy check to ee that our various mobile devices have been turned off. For those of you online can ask questions at any time by emailing speaker heritage. Org. Mr. Burton, before joining heritage, served as general counsel of the Small Business association, hes been chief Financial Officer and general counsel for the alliance for retirement prosperity and was a partner at the arfwuss group, a Public Policy and Government Relations firm. Please welcome me in welcoming david burton. David. David thank you for coming. It is my pleasure to introduce to you commissioner michael buehler. He was appointed to the securities and Exchange Commission by president obama and was sworn in in august of 2013. He was dez egg nated by President Trump to be acting chairman of the commission and served in that capacity if january 23 of this year to may 4, when his term and his term expires
Talked about business regulations and their impact on the economy. The secs agenda and future priorities. From the heritage foundation, this is one hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon. Welcome to our heritage foundation. Welcome to those of you joining us on our website or in house. We ask for a courtesy check to see that our various mobile devices have been turned off. Devices have been turned off. For those of you online, you can ask questions at any time by emailing speaker heritage. Org. Leading our conversation isine, you can david burton. Mr. Burton, before joining heritage, served as general counsel of the Small Business association, hes been chief Financial Officer and general counsel for the alliance for retirement prosperity and was as david partner at the argus group, a Public Policy and Government Relations firm. Please join me in welcoming david burton. David. David thank you for coming. It is my pleasure to introduce to you commissioner michael buehler. He was appointed t
Silenced or turned off. For those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or comments anytime, emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Leading our conversation this afternoon is david burton, our senior fellow for Economic Policy and heritages institute for economic freedom. Mr. Burton before joining heritage served as general counsel at the National Small business association, also been chief Financial Officer and general counsel of the alliance for retirement prosperity, and was a partner at the argus group, a Public Policy and Government Relations firm. Please join me in welcoming david burton. David. [ applause ] well, thank you for coming. It is my pleasure to introduce to you commissioner michael piwowar. He was appointed to the securities and Exchange Commission by president obama and was sworn in in august of 2013. He was designated by trump to be acting chairman of the commission and served in that capacity from january 23rd of this year to may 4th. His term expires in jun
Not doing the best that they can for their customer. So those instances often will be something where they may have recommended to the customer a security that is really not suitable for the customers financial condition. Or that they said something that wasnt accurate or was misleading about the security and trying to get the investor to put their assets into that product. When you are watching Late Night Television at 2 00 in the morning you see investment products, might some of those be included in the brokers and things that you oversee . They might. So we have a pretty strict set of rules about how brokers advertise. The really, really bad products if you looked at them closely you would find they are not securities. The ones where they say guaranteed 10 return. Brokers are not allowed to say there is a guaranteed return and not allowed to project the return. When i see these in a local newspaper i look closely and see it turns out it is not a prod t product. If brokers were to d
Not doing the best that they can for their customer. So those instances often will be something where they may have recommended to the customer a security that is really not suitable for the customers financial condition. Or that they said something that wasnt accurate or was misleading about the security and trying to get the investor to put their assets into that product. When you are watching Late Night Television at 2 00 in the morning you see investment products, might some of those be included in the brokers and things that you oversee . They might. So we have a pretty strict set of rules about how brokers advertise. The really, really bad products if you looked at them closely you would find they are not securities. The ones where they say guaranteed 10 return. Brokers are not allowed to say there is a guaranteed return and not allowed to project the return. When i see these in a local newspaper i look closely and see it turns out it is not a prod t product. If brokers were to d