The Consumer Duty legislation has been put in place to focus on ensuring fair value, providing products and services designed to meet client needs, delivering high levels of client service and improving consumer confidence and client understanding.
Client Principle
- A firm must act to deliver good outcomes for clients
Cross-cutting rules
- Firms must act in good faith
- Firms must avoid foreseeable harm
- Firms must enable and support clients to pursue their financial objectives
Four outcomes
- Products and services
- Price and value
- Client understanding
- Client support
For more information on the legislative backdrop to the new regulations, watch our consumer duty video by Director of Financial Planning, Ben Clapham.