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I believe that the regulation that requires that disclosure comes from the 1933 law establishing the SEC. A specific concern was how advertising past returns fed into getting people excited about bubbles like the one which popped in 1929.

Therefore the regulation was meant to address a systemic problem rather than individual malfeasance.




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