Are consultants at MBB allowed to trade individual stocks? Or are they limited to mutual funds only? For example, can someone at McKinsey buy AAPL?

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We can’t buy stocks of our clients, which unfortunately rules out basically all of the high growth stocks, so most just buy ETFs

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What? Are you guys advising GME as well?

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I heard McKinsey has chains

We have to get individual trades approved through compliance. No trading stocks of our clients

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