Security Selection, Suitability and Maintenance
Select and administer securities within client objectives and ongoing suitability duties.
How to prepare for the Investment Advice Diploma
Build UK regulation, integrity, investment, risk and tax first; then apply those foundations to the one technical option aligned with your role. The original multiple-choice practice tests knowledge, calculations and advisory judgement without reproducing recalled or secure CISI questions.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Apply client evidence to security selection.
Exam cue: Confirm mandate and suitability.
Concept 2
Compare execution and ownership arrangements.
Exam cue: Select venue and ownership form.
Concept 3
Maintain valuations, income, tax records and corporate-action instructions.
Exam cue: Monitor position and lifecycle events.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Choosing on yield alone.
Guardrail: Do not combine the five displayed units into one exam, infer permission from qualification, use stale annual figures or ignore the selected technical route.
Ignoring dealing and custody costs.
Guardrail: Do not combine the five displayed units into one exam, infer permission from qualification, use stale annual figures or ignore the selected technical route.
Failing to update instructions after a client change.
Guardrail: Do not combine the five displayed units into one exam, infer permission from qualification, use stale annual figures or ignore the selected technical route.
Memory anchors
Nominee holding
A registered holding in a nominee name while the underlying client retains beneficial ownership.
Best execution
The duty to take sufficient steps to obtain the best possible result under the applicable factors and policy.
Ongoing suitability
Continuing assessment required where the service includes periodic suitability review.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
Why is yield alone insufficient when selecting a bond?
What should an adviser compare when choosing a share-dealing service?
Answer all questions to submit.
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