Investor Alerts and Bulletins

The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Assistance is issuing this Investor Bulletin to help educate retail investors about the ways investors can hold crypto assets. This Investor Bulletin provides an overview of types of crypto asset custody and provides tips and questions to help you decide how to best hold crypto assets.What is crypto asset custody?

With 2025 ending, the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Assistance is highlighting 10 important Investor Alerts and Bulletins. These resources, all available on Investor.gov, can help you make informed investment decisions and avoid investment fraud.  If you have questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at help@sec.gov, our online question form, or on our toll-free investor assistance line at (800) 732-0330.  

The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Assistance is issuing this Investor Bulletin to inform investors about health savings accounts (HSAs), which offer tax benefits when used to pay for qualified medical expenses. We encourage you to also consult Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance on HSAs. What is a health savings account (HSA)?

The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA) warns that fraudsters may impersonate the SEC -- or SEC officials or employees -- on social media or in text messages to solicit you for scams. These scams include stock tips, advance fee fraud, and pretending to help you get your money back.

The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) are issuing this Investor Bulletin to urge investors to consider adding a “trusted contact person” to their brokerage account.

The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Bulletin to explain some of the most common mutual fund fees and expenses. As a general introduction to mutual fund fees and expenses, this Investor Bulletin does not identify all of the fees that you may pay to buy and own shares in a mutual fund. This Investor Bulletin will, however, familiarize you with some typical mutual fund fees and expenses and show you how those fees and expenses reduce the value of your fund’s investment return.

The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this updated bulletin to educate investors about how fees you pay for investment services and products can impact the value of your portfolio.

The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA) urges investors to be vigilant for investment scams related to natural disasters, including the recent Texas floods. Fraudsters often seek to use disasters and other events, such as floods, wildfires, and hurricanes to lure victims into investment scams. These frauds may directly target individuals receiving money from insurance companies or other sources. These investment frauds can take many forms. For example, fraudsters may:

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) are issuing this Investor Bulletin to help investors better understand the designations financial professionals use.

The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Bulletin to help educate investors about cash sweep programs, which broker-dealers and investment advisers (“investment firms”) offer to manage uninvested cash held in accounts by their investment firms. This Investor Bulletin describes these cash sweep programs and suggests questions you may want to ask yourself to help you decide how to best manage the uninvested cash in your investment account.