We thought it would be prudent to send one final reminder regarding the change to the Capital Resource Requirements that come into force 31/12/13.
The new capital requirements under IPRU for Personal Investment Firms (PIF’s) to be implemented over a three year period are:
| Deadline | EBR | Minimum Requirement |
| 31 December 2013 | 1 month (4 weeks) | £15,000 |
| 31 December 2014 | 2 months (8 weeks) | £15,000 |
| 31 December 2015 | 3 months (13 weeks) | £20,000 |
EBR is your ‘Expenditure Based Requirement’ i.e. the amount of fixed expenditure you need to hold as capital. The calculation is not straightforward so please speak to your ATEB consultant if you are unsure.
Note the changes affect all firms giving investment advice, those of you that only advise on mortgage and insurance business will still be governed by the MIPRU rules that are not changing.
If you have subordinated loans then refer to your ATEB consultant for clarification how these are treated.
A closer look at FG 21/3 – finalised guidance on transfers
Alistair MacDougall Compliance FCA, Pension, Pension Transfer, PI, transfer
In our recent article giving an overview of Finalised Guidance (FG 21/3), we indicated that we would pick out a few of the more interesting snippets for a closer look. That is not to imply that the rest of the guidance is of no interest, just a reflection that much of the guidance is a […]