Let’s be honest about it, there aren’t too many regulatory documents that are going to be nominated for a Booker Prize.
There is however some FCA reading that qualifies for the financial services industry equivalent, the Parrot Prize. Ok, so we may not expect you to be able to recite them parrot fashion, but you should nevertheless fully understand them, because they explain the core regulatory framework for IFA businesses.
Here are the documents in question:
- Finalised Guidance 12_16 Replacement Business and Centralised Investment Proposition here.
- Establishing the risk a customer is willing and able to take and making a suitable investment selection here.
- Independent and restricted advice here .
- RDR Fact Sheet 007 disclosing your firm’s charges and services here .
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Advising non-UK clients
Alistair MacDougall Compliance Conduct, EEA, email, EU, FCA, MiFID, passport, PI, vulnerable
Despite the fact that the UK ceased to be a member of the EU/EEA almost a year ago, we are still asked for advice around how a UK firm can take on a new non-UK client or continue to deal with such clients that the firm had pre-BREXIT. We have written before about the general […]