Trading policies at Bulge Brackets

Hi all, considering a move over to a BB and wanted to understand what the restrictions / policies generally are at Bulges. If someone could specifically confirm the policies at Goldman, JPM and Barclays, that'd be great.

At a place where we have none so trying to understand if any issues in keeping the portfolio of stocks I have right now or be immediately restricted from selling these if needed in future.

Any insights into how these restrictions work (as in would someone in Industrials group be restricted from trading names in the tech world? I'd imagine the firms as a whole would probably be doing some work for most of the S&P 500 names at any given time). How does the approval process work for these "clearance requests" etc would be great. 

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JPM:

- generally cant buy stocks ur groups covering or in restricted list 

- min 30 day holding period

- need clearance and pre approval before buying and selling

-  submit acc statements every quarter for disclosure of positions and movements in holdings

might be some other policies but cant remember, i dont actively trade so dont really bother with the PAD - i invest in MFs which doesnt require clearance

 
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Very helpful to know. Is the clearance / pre-approval process something that's bit automatic? I.e. something like a central system that has a list of securities that won't be approved but others might be? Or is it more of a manual process that might take some time / few days to get approved, etc?

Wondering what it might do to a round trip (buy + sell) time frictions. 

Assuming that this would be the same for options too? I think the hold period and / or having to wait for several days for approval on options might be tough, unless the pre-approval process is somewhat streamlined.

 

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