Designated investment business carried on for a retail client |
Providing basic advice |
1. |
Stakeholder products excluding a deposit-based stakeholder product |
No |
Advising or giving personal recommendations (as relevant)13 |
2. |
Giving personal recommendations on securities13 which are not stakeholder pension schemes, personal pension schemes7 or broker funds |
Yes |
3. |
Giving personal recommendations on derivatives13 |
Yes2 |
4. |
Giving personal recommendations on retail investment products13 which are not broker funds 66 |
Yes2 |
5. |
Giving personal recommendations on13Friendly Societylife policies where the employee is not reasonably expected to receive a remuneration of greater than £1000 a year in respect of such sales |
No2 |
6. |
Giving personal recommendations on13Friendly Society tax-exempt policies (other than Holloway sickness policies where the Holloway policy special application conditions are met)5 |
Yes2 |
7. |
Giving personal recommendations on long-term care insurance contracts13 |
Yes2 |
8. |
Giving personal recommendations on investments13 in the course of corporate finance business |
Yes2 |
9. |
Advising on syndicate participation at Lloyd's |
Yes2 |
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129A. |
Advising on P2P agreements |
Yes |
Undertaking the activity in column 2 |
10. |
Broker fund adviser |
Yes |
11. |
Pension transfer specialist |
Yes2 |
Giving personal recommendations13 and dealing |
12. |
Giving personal recommendations on and dealing in securities13 which are not stakeholder pension schemes, personal pension schemes7 or broker funds |
Yes |
13. |
Giving personal recommendations on and dealing in derivatives13 |
Yes2 |
4Dealing |
13A.8 |
Securities which are not stakeholder pension schemes, personal pension schemes7 or broker funds |
No |
413B.8 |
Derivatives |
No |
8 |
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[deleted]14 |
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Managing |
14. |
Investments |
Yes |
Overseeing on a day-to-day basis |
15. |
Operating a collective investment scheme or undertaking the activities of a trustee or depositary of a collective investment scheme |
Yes |
16. |
Safeguarding and administering investments or holding client money |
Yes2 |
17. |
Administrative functions in relation to managing investments |
Yes2 |
18. |
Administrative functions in relation to effecting or carrying out contracts of insurance which are life policies |
Yes2 |
19. |
Administrative functions in relation to the operation of stakeholder pension schemes |
Yes2 |
Mortgage Activity10 and reversion activity carried on for a customer 10 |
910Advising; arranging (bringing about) an execution-only sale, excluding variations to an existing home finance transaction except where the effect is to change all or part of the home finance transaction from one interest rate to another. See Note 3, which for the avoidance of doubt forms part of this rule. |
20 |
Regulated mortgage contracts for a non-business purpose |
Yes |
20A |
Regulated mortgage contracts for a business purpose |
No |
21 |
Equity release transactions |
Yes |
9Designing scripted questions for execution-only sales |
21A |
Regulated mortgage contracts for a non-business purpose |
Yes |
21B |
Regulated mortgage contracts for a business purpose |
No |
22 |
Equity release transactions |
Yes |
Overseeing execution-only sales on a day-to-day basis9 9 |
23. |
Equity release transactions |
Yes |
11MCD credit agreement activities carried on for consumers |
11manufacturing |
23A |
an MCD credit agreement |
No |
11entering into a regulated mortgage contract or entering into a regulated credit agreement as lender |
23B |
an MCD credit agreement |
No |
11arranging (bringing about) regulated mortgage contracts or acting as an MCD credit broker |
23C |
an MCD credit agreement |
No |
11advising on a regulated mortgage contract or advising on a regulated credit agreement for the acquisition of land |
23D |
an MCD credit agreement |
No |
11directly managing or supervising employees who carry on any of the MCD credit agreement activities 23A to 23D |
23E |
an MCD credit agreement |
No |
[Note: article 9(1) of the MCD]11 |
Non-investment insurance business carried on for a consumer |
Giving personal recommendations13 |
24. |
Giving personal recommendations on non-investment insurance contracts13 |
No |
3Regulated sale and rent back activity carried on for a customer |
Advising |
25. |
Regulated sale and rent back agreements |
No |
Overseeing an execution-only sale10 on a day-to-day basis 10 |
26. |
Regulated sale and rent back agreements |
No |
Notes: |
1. |
In the Appendix the heading and types of business specified in the headings are to be read in conjunction with the paragraphs appearing beneath them. |
2. |
Thus, for example, paragraph 24,13 consistent with the heading above it, refers only to personal recommendations given in relation to13non-investment insurance contracts given to a consumer.10 33 |
122A. |
In relation to activity number 9A, see TC 2.1.5HR and TC 2.1.6R(2). There is no qualification for this activity in the list of qualifications set out in TC Appendix 4E. However, the effect of TC 2.1.5HR is that an employeeadvising on P2P agreements must be qualified to the same standard as if that employee were providing investment advice to retail clients on retail investment products. |
103. |
For the purpose of product numbers 20, 20A and 21 the activity of arranging (bringing about) referred to in the activity column: (a) includes activity which would be arranging (bringing about) but for the exclusion in article 28A of the Regulated Activities Order; and (b) does not include activities which taken on their own would not fall within the definition of that activity. For these purposes no account should be taken of the fact that for an activity to be a regulated activity it must be carried on by way of business (see PERG 4.3). |
4. |
In this Appendix, paragraphs 23A, 23B, 23C, 23D and 23E relate to the implementation of article 9(1) of the MCD. The specified activities do not, in and of themselves, attract a qualification requirement. However, where those activities overlap with those specified under the heading "mortgage activity and reversion activity carried on for a customer", qualification requirements may apply. |