Whether you’ve committed to yearly, 6-monthly, quarterly or whatever frequency of review, it is vitally important that you can demonstrate an audit trail of meeting the service levels agreed with the customer.
There are growing concerns in the industry that some advisers are not delivering the ongoing service as agreed or are providing a bare minimum service for disproportionate fees.
It is vitally important that you can demonstrate adequate servicing in accordance with the service standards agreed. Integral to this requirement is a good quality and comprehensive Review Report.
ATEB suitability incorporates review capabilities and, if you have not already done so, we would encourage you to investigate and develop review reports using the system.
FCS Transitional Arrangements
Steve Bailey Compliance Update
As you will be aware the Financial Services Authority ceased to be and the Financial Conduct Authority took over the regulation of financial advice firms on 01 April 2013.
The FSA issued PS13/05 last week which includes updated rules and transition arrangements. The policy statement itself is 88 pages but the ‘appendix (3)’ that accompanies it is a mere 1990 pages so you must excuse us for not as yet absorbing every word. The document can be seen here.