UKSIF has welcomed the FSA’s guidance consultation paper ‘Assessing suitability: Replacement business and centralised investment propositions’. The trade body which runs National Ethical Investment Week was responding to the consultation on this guidance which closes today.

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UKSIF has called for greater FSA understanding of modern sustainable and responsible investment in its response to the regulator’s discussion paper on Product Intervention.

It also wants FSA regulators to recognise the particular needs of religious investors and others seeking to reflect their values and social priorities in their investments and other financial products. This should form part of the FSA’s new duty to promote equality.

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Read UKSIF’s response to the FSA discussion paper on “Product Intervention”.