Avoid it! Don’t assume that your clients will understand technical terms and acronyms. Yes, there has to be a degree of technical information, but wherever possible, explain this in simple terms.
We like the ‘granny test’ (with the greatest respect to all grannies all over the world) i.e. if your granny (or wife, husband, partner, aunty, uncle or best mate) can understand it, then you’re on the right track.
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If you ask most advice firms which part of the advice process consumes the most time, most will reply: “Suitability Reports”. Based on the mammoth documents that some firms still produce, we can understand why. We do have some sympathy with firms though. On the one hand they’re told by the FCA that reports are […]
The title may well lead you to thinking that this guy isn’t too tightly wrapped and perhaps a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic, but there is method in the madness. Honestly. Most of you good folk out there will receive regular bulletins from various publications virtually every day (almost hourly if you subscribe […]
Client objectives are the starting point for virtually all advice scenarios, but how often do the objectives recorded on file look more like the product solution than what the client actually wanted to achieve? We check a lot of files and some client objectives are clearly articulated in the client’s own words and are supported […]
Last week we reported that one of ATEB’s firms had received a monster information request from the FCA. This week we can report on the outcome. Readers will be aware that the firm in question received an unsolicited request from a supervisor at the FCA to provide a very considerable amount of data and […]
Template Enhancements + New Morningstar & Transact-BlackRock Content Integrations
Doug McFarlane Suitability 2023, CleverMPS, content management, EBI, EU, FCA, Morningstar, platform, Suitability Review, Switch, Transact-BlackRock, Update
We have completed the latest upgrade to ATEB Suitability on 26th October 2023. This update comes at no additional cost and provides various template-related enhancements as well as new additions to our content integration and content management libraries. Full details of the enhancements can be found in the tables below, but some of the highlights […]