London Evening Meeting – November 2017: The CMA’s Market Investigation into Investment Consultancy and Fiduciary Management Services

Hosted by:

Who can attend:

Attendance is normally restricted to staff of SPP Member organisations.  However, if you would like to attend as our guest, please contact us to request a guest pass.

Subject:

The CMA’s Market Investigation into Investment Consultancy and Fiduciary Management Services

Speaker:

Alison Gold (Project Director) and Emily Chissell (Assistant Project Director), The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

Alison and Emily are leading the market investigation into investment consultants.

As CMA will be in the middle of its investigation, there will be some limits on what it will be able to present and discuss.  For example, whilst the CMA is happy to discuss and take questions on topics such as

• The practicalities of a Market Investigation, and
• The CMA’s issues statement, in particular the theories of harm and the potential remedies.

The CMA would like to emphasise that it has not yet reached a view on any of these issues, so would not be in a position to discuss, for example, its thinking on any of the points, or its views on any of the responses received.

Timings:  

5.00 p.m. – Registration and Refreshments

5.30 p.m. – Start of meeting

6.45 p.m. – The meeting is expected to end following questions and answers

6.45 p.m. – Short drinks reception

CPD Accreditation:

• PMI: 1¼ hours under the PMI CPD Scheme
• Solicitors Regulation Authority: 1¼ hours (Reference 464329)
• Actuarial Profession: Attendance at this meeting could be considered towards the 10 hours external CPD required under the Actuarial Profession’s arrangements.

London evening meetings can be oversubscribed.  Where we assess this to be likely, we will cap initial attendance at a maximum of ten per Member organisation on a first come first served basis. Any names in excess of ten will be placed on a waiting list and we will be in touch if it proves possible to accommodate them.

As always, in the event of the expected attendance exceeding the capacity of the venue, we reserve the right to decline bookings.