Initial Disclosure Document
Key facts
1. The Financial Services Authority (FSA)
The FSA is the independent watchdog that regulates financial services. It requires us to give you this document. Use this information to decide if our services are right for you.
2. Whose products do we offer?
Investment
| We offer products from the whole market. | |
| We only offer products from a limited number of companies. Ask us for a list of the companies and products we offer. | |
| We only offer products from a single group of companies |
Insurance
| We offer products from a range of insurers for level term assurance, family income benefit and other pure protection contracts. | |
| We only offer products from a limited number of insurers. Ask us for a list of the insurers we offer insurance from. | |
| We can only offer a product[s] from a single insurer for non-investment insurance contracts [or]. We only offer our own products for non-investment insurance contracts. |
3. Which service will we provide you with?
Investment
| We will advise and make a recommendation for you after we have assessed your needs. | |
| You will not receive advice or a recommendation from us. We may ask some questions to narrow down the selection of products that we will provide details on. You will then need to make your own choice about how to proceed. | |
We will provide basic advice on a limited range of stakeholder products and in order to do this we will ask some questions about your income, savings and other circumstances but we will not:
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Insurance
| We will advise and make a recommendation for you after we have assessed your needs for level term assurance, family income benefit, and other pure protection contracts. | |
| You will not receive advice or a recommendation from us for level term assurance, family income benefit and other pure protection contracts. We may ask some questions to narrow down the selection of products that we will provide details on. You will then need to make your own choice about how to proceed. | |
| We only offer products from a single insurer. |
4. What will you have to pay us for our services?
Investment
| We will tell you how we get paid, and the amount, before we carry out any business for you. | |
| Before we provide you with advice, we will give you our keyfacts guide 'about the cost of our services'. | |
Insurance
| A fee maybe payable for advising on or arranging a non-investment insurance/ pure protection contract as described in 3 above. | |
| No fee will be charged for advising on or arranging non-investment insurance contracts. |
You will receive a quotation which will tell you about any other fees relating to any particular insurance policy.
5. Are we covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS)?
We are covered by the FSCS. You may be entitled to compensation from the scheme if we cannot meet our obligations. This depends on the type of business and the circumstances of the claim.
Investment
Most types of investment business are covered for 100% of the first £30,000 and 90% of the next £20,000 so the maximum compensation is £48,000.
Insurance
Insurance advising and arranging is covered for 100% of the first £2,000 and 90% of the remainder of the claim, without any upper limit.