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Documentation and rendering account: document and render account to client in an appropriate manner.

Appropriateness and suitability of financial services: when investment advice or portfolio management services are provided, financial services providers shall perform an appropriateness or suitability review.

Duty to provide information: provide sufficient information on the financial service providers itself, financial instruments, the risks and costs associated, or also make available the appropriate documentation to investors.

Financial service providers, including (where applicable) asset managers, had until Decemto comply with the following obligations: These rules vary according to the financial service offered (portfolio management, investment advice, order execution) and the classification of the client. As per FinIA, these actors need to be authorized to perform their services in Switzerland.

What organizational measures you will have to put in place to comply with themįinSA establishes a Code of Conduct and rules of behavior applicable to all financial service providers including client advisers, producers and providers of financial instruments.

What is covered by these multiple code of conduct rules and to whom do these rules apply.

This article will help you to understand: With the multiplication of new regulations, self-regulation and guidelines, the compliance is not without challenges for the Swiss asset management industry. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) recognized the AMAS self-regulation as a minimum standard in September 2021 and its provisions are applicable since 1 st January 2022. This self-regulation includes a new Code of Conduct, revised guidelines and revised model distribution agreement. The Association of Asset Managers Switzerland (AMAS) has published a revised version of its self-regulation in light of the revised CISA, FinSA and FinIA.

Only product-specific rules remain under the revised CISA, even if the prospectus requirements and the duty to issue a key information document (KID) are essentially regulated by the FinSA. With the introduction of Financial Services Act (FinSA) and the Financial Institutions Act (FinIA) and the respective revision of the Collective Investment Schemes Act (CISA), the Swiss fund and asset management industry faces a tsunami of regulatory changes with impact across the whole value chain.įinSA now governs the provision of financial services and imposes new rules of behavior for financial services providers. 2022 will be a busy year for the asset managers in Switzerland.