No longer content to be silent bystanders, these growing categories of investors are demanding more outreach from IR pros and CFOs.
Backers of the first-ever bitcoin-related ETF have not been able to assuage SEC concerns over bitcoin fraud and price manipulation.
A critic of the SEC's move says it is "the latest in what has become the story of the ETF product development run amok."
The SEC says Pimco pursued a pricing strategy that misled investors about the initial performance of an exchange-traded fund in 2012.
The combination of Britain's Henderson and Janus comes amid the continuing shift of investors to cheaper passive investment funds.
The deal combines CBOE's traditional trading pits with the electronic trading technology of upstart Bats to create a new exchange giant.
FINRA says the money manager sold non-traditional exchange-traded funds to investors who weren't qualified to buy them.
"Despite the popularity and broad success of these funds, their history is not without some turbulence," SEC Chair Mary Jo White says.
