Product-Specific Disclosures: Municipal Securities, Government Securities, and CMOs
Chapters in this video
- 0:00 How to lose your Series 7 license in 5 minutes
- 1:41 Muni ads and the knew-or-should-have-known standard
- 2:36 Written principal approval before first use
- 3:27 CMOs: the full-name requirement
- 4:27 Educational material offered, not delivered
- 5:42 Radio ads and the prepayment risk disclosure
- 6:51 Rapid-fire exam recap
What this video covers
- The MSRB "knew or should have known" standard for municipal securities advertisements, and why ignorance is never a defense
- The written principal approval requirement for muni ads prior to first use, and the separate-file recordkeeping rule
- What an official statement is, how it flows from underwriter to dealer to investor, and why it replaces a prospectus for municipal securities
- Why retail communications and correspondence must spell out "Collateralized Mortgage Obligation" in full and cannot abbreviate to CMO
- The educational material that must be offered to non-institutional investors before a CMO sale, and the critical distinction between offered and delivered
- Which investor types trigger the CMO educational-material rule, and why institutional investors are exempt
- The exact mandatory oral disclosure for radio and television CMO advertisements, and how it maps directly to prepayment risk
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