Related provisions for TC 1.1.4

1. Employees engaging in:

Advising and dealing

(a) advising on investments which are, and dealing with or for clients in, securities (other than stakeholder pension schemes or broker funds) and derivatives;

(b) advising on investments which are, and dealing with or for clients in, securities (other than stakeholder pension schemes or broker funds) only;

(c) advising on investments which are, and dealing with or for clients in, derivatives only;

Managing

(d) managing investment;

(e) managing investments in relation to venture capital investments only;

Advising (without dealing)

(f) advising on investments which are packaged products (other than broker fund or as in (g), (h) or (ha));4

(g) advising on investments which are friendly society tax exempt policies only;

(h) advising on investments which are packaged products (where the employee sells only life policies issued by a friendly society and is not reasonably expected to receive remuneration of more than £1,000 a year in respect of such sales);

(ha) advising on investments which are long-term care insurance contracts;4

(i) advising on investments in the course of corporate finance business only;

(j) advising on investments which are (but not dealing in) securities (other than stakeholder pension schemes or broker funds) and derivatives;

(k) advising on investments which are (but not dealing in) securities (other than stakeholder pension schemes or broker funds) only;

(l) advising on investments which are (but not dealing in) derivatives only;

(m) the activity of a broker fund adviser;

(n) advising on syndicate participation at Lloyd's;

(o) the activity of a pension transfer specialist.

(p) advising a customer on a:3

(i) regulated mortgage contract (other than a regulated lifetime mortgage contract) or a regulated mortgage contract that is for a business purpose; and23

(ii) regulated lifetime mortgage contract.23

Non-advised sales

(q) designing scripted questions for use in sales to customers of regulated lifetime mortgage contracts which do not involve personal recommendations2;8

(r) advising on investments which are non-investment insurance contracts26

(s) providing basic advice on stakeholder products (other than a deposit-based stakeholder product).8

1. In relation to designated investment business:2

(a) if the activity is carried on with or for a private customer, whole of TC 2 applies;2

(b) if the activity is carried on with or for an intermediate customer or a market counterparty:9

(i) for a money market instrument activity, TC 2 is disapplied as a whole; or9

(ii) otherwise, only TC 2.4, TC 2.5, TC 2.6, and TC 2.8 apply.29

2. In relation to regulated mortgage activities2, whole of TC 2 applies.2

3. In relation to advising on investments which are non-investment insurance contracts if the activity is carried on with or for a retail customer (see ICOB), the whole of TC 2 applies, except for TC 2.5, as if in TC 2.2, TC 2.3, TC 2.4 and TC 2.7 each reference to private customer were a reference to retail customer.6

2. Employees overseeing on a day-to-day basis:

(a) operating, or acting as a trustee or depositary of, a collective investment scheme;

(b) safeguarding and administering investments or holding of client money (unless held in the course of carrying on a mortgage mediation activity2, or an insurance mediation activity only in relation to a non-investment insurance contract6);

(c) the following administrative functions in relation to managing investments:

(i) arranging settlement;

(ii) monitoring and processing corporate actions;

(iii) client account administration, liaison and reporting, including valuation and performance measurement;

(iv) ISA, PEP or CTF administration;7

(v) investment trust savings scheme administration;

(d) the following administrative functions in relation to the effecting or carrying out of life policies:

(i) new business administration;

(ii)policy alterations, including surrenders and policy loans;

(iii) preparingprojections;

(iv) processing claims, including pension payments;

(v) fund switching;

(e) taking private customers through decision trees in connection with a stakeholder pension scheme;

(f) the following administrative functions in relation to the operation of a stakeholder pension scheme:

(i) new business administration;

(ii) receipt of or alteration to contributions;

(iii) preparing projections and annual statements;

(iv) administration of transfers;

(v) handling claims, including pension payments;

(vi) fund allocation and switching.

(g) the sales tocustomersof2regulated lifetime mortgage contractswhich do not involvepersonal recommendations.2

Whole of TC 2applies exceptTC 2.7 (Supervising).