Financial advice

‘Financial Advice’ has a specific legal and regulatory meaning. It is a personal recommendation from a qualified individual given after due consideration of personal circumstances and objectives. It is important to clarify the difference between taking advice and making your own decisions without going through this process (‘execution only’) in order that you can select the right option for you.

Advice

To provide financial advice advisers are required (by Regulation/Law) to take time to analyse your objectives, needs and attitude to risk to ensure that the advice given is suitable. Ordinarily that is to be proactive with opinions and suggestions to see that investors understand the implications of any proposed actions. The advice is then presented in written form clarifying the associated risks and costs.

Financial practitioners have to be authorised and regulated by the Financial Service Authority (FSA) and subject to its Rule Book.

Execution only

If you make your own investment decisions and use our services to do that (known as ‘Execution only’) you accept responsibility for the decisions you have made.

Warnings

The following investment warnings may or may not apply to any actions you take and are detailed here to make you aware of some of the issues which surround investing. Please contact us for clarification where required.

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The information on this website is not ‘advice’, it is provided solely as information. Where any investments and/or investment services are referred to these may not be suitable for particular investors who should contact us for any such financial advice.

Unlike cash, stock market based investments are not guaranteed and fall in value as well as rise; we therefore believe you should only invest for the longer term. Ultimately you could get back less than you invest. Any yields will vary over time so income is variable and not guaranteed.

Cancellation rights may not be available. Most investments do probably not provide capital guarantees like a deposit account and may not be readily accessible.

Past performance should not be seen as an indication of future performance. Exchange rate fluctuations may have an adverse effect on the values.

Tax rules change over time and any benefit to you will depend on your circumstances.

Investments and investment plans normally incur charges which could, amongst others, be initial, ongoing or apply at the time of realisation.

Some investments can be less readily realisable than others (e.g. property funds) and it may be difficult to deal in or obtain reliable information about their value.

Some assets carry a higher degree of risk of losing money than others. It may be difficult to deal in such assets.

This list is not comprehensive and certain risks apply to certain products, markets etc. Again you should refer to us where any clarification is required.

 
 
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