Tax & Finance

SEC seeks OMB extension for Investor Form information collection

🇺🇸United States··Notice·Low Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

The SEC is renewing approval for its online Investor Form, which people use to submit investment complaints, questions, tips, and feedback. The form asks for contact details, the people or firms involved, the issue, supporting documents, and any steps the investor has already taken. The change is administrative, but it matters for investors and SEC staff. The form helps the agency process about 13,000 contacts a year, track complaint trends, answer questions, and identify issues that may need enforcement review. Use of the form remains voluntary, and investors can still contact the SEC by phone, fax, mail, or email.

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Key Changes

  • Renews SEC approval to collect information through the online Investor Form
  • Confirms the form remains voluntary and alternative contact methods remain available
  • Allows the SEC to continue using submitted information to process complaints, answer questions, track trends, and support possible enforcement reviews

Obligations

What this law requires

medium

An agency must not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless the collection displays a currently valid OMB Control Number.

Federal agencies conducting or sponsoring information collections
operational
low

A person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB Control Number.

Persons asked to respond to federal information collections
disclosure

Affected Parties

Investors contacting the SECBroker-dealers, investment advisers, and other firms named in investor complaints+1 more…

Tags

SEC,investor complaints,information collection