Securities and Exchange Commission

Explanation

The SEC was created by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, following the 1929 crash and Great Depression. Its mission: protect investors, maintain fair markets, and facilitate capital formation. Key functions: requiring public companies to disclose financial information (10-K, 10-Q filings), regulating exchanges and broker-dealers, enforcing insider trading and fraud laws, and overseeing investment advisors and fund managers. The SEC has approximately 4,600 employees and an annual budget of roughly $2 billion.

How Stoquity Uses This

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