The essential guide to complying with the investment business Regulations.
Our Designated Professional Body Investment Business Manual provides guidance and supporting documentation that will help you to establish and maintain investment business compliance procedures within your firm.
Providing a set of simplified procedures to ensure that a firm, licensed by its Designated Professional Body (DPB) to carry out a restricted range of investment business activities, can operate within the confines of that licence, the manual includes:
- General compliance procedures to help ensure that everyone in the firm is aware of the key compliance issues
- Help for firms to satisfy the requirements of their Institute's DPB (Investment Business) licence
- Guidance on referring clients to an IFA, acting as trustee, executor or Power of Attorney for clients and handling corporate finance work
- A wide range of supporting letters and checklists to help you implement DPB investment business procedures within your firm.
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Manual Details
Content
- Guidance and supporting letters, checklists and other documentation that cover:
- general compliance procedures, including an annual investment business compliance review
- referring clients, for example to a Permitted Third Party or to your own in-house or joint venture IFA business
- corporate finance activities; the typical areas of concern and managing your professional liability
- advertisements and financial promotions, including necessary statements and guidance on exemptions
- trustees, executors and powers of attorney, establishing permitted activities and engagement terms
- the clients' money regulations, including an annual compliance review
- fee protection policies.
Latest Update
November 2025
We are pleased to issue your new DPB Investment Business Manual. The manual is based on the previous manual, but with a fresh look. There have been no technical changes to the content.
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