We don’t mean to sound condescending, but based on our experience after checking thousands of files, the most common suitability report errors are typing, spelling and grammatical.
The suitability report is a cornerstone of your advice process and promotes your brand and standards of professionalism. A suitability report that is poorly written, unchecked and not proof read is likely to include errors and hence does not promote your brand in a favourable light.
Using a tool like ATEB Suitability will eliminate to a greater degree such errors by storing standardised text centrally. You can also use a browser with a built in spell checker to check your spelling as you go.
Appointed Representatives – some SM&CR questions
John Begg Compliance 2018, Certification, Conduct, Directory, FCA, Register, Senior Manager, SM&CR
Occasionally, we come across firms that are ‘Principal Firms’ – i.e. the firm has Appointed Representatives (AR) but where one or more individuals straddle both the Principal and the AR. This can raise questions around the applicability of SM&CR to such individuals since the SM&CR does not apply to ARs. Why does the SM&CR not […]