FSC-Conflicts of Interest LCG
FSC-Conflicts of Interest LCG
The scope of the Policy is to ensure that the Company complies with all legislative requirements and the
departmental and general internal procedures established by its Internal Procedures Manual and to take all
reasonable steps to identify and manage any conflicts of interest that may arise between us and any of our
clients or between our clients.
The Company is required to establish, implement and maintain a policy on conflicts of interest and provide
information regarding the adequate managing of any conflicts of interest between itself, including its
managers and employees, tied agents or other relevant persons, as well as any person directly or indirectly
linked to them by control, and their clients or between one client and another that arise in the course of
providing any investment and ancillary services.
2. IDENTIFICATION
Conflicts of interests may include any situation where either the Company or an individual is in a position to
exploit a professional or official capacity in some way for either corporate or personal benefit.
1. The Company or a relevant person, or a person directly or indirectly linked by control to the Company,
is likely to make a financial gain or avoid a financial loss, at the expense of the client.
2. The Company or a relevant person, or a person directly or indirectly linked by control to the Company,
has an interest in the outcome of a service provided to the client, or of the transaction carried out on
behalf of the client, which is distinct from the client’s interest in that outcome.
3. The Company or a relevant person, or a person directly or indirectly linked by control to the Company,
has a financial or other incentive to favor the interest of another client or group of clients over the
interests of the client.
4. The Company or a relevant person, or a person directly or indirectly linked by control to the Company,
carries on the same business as the client.
5. The Company or a relevant person, or a person directly or indirectly linked by control to the Company,
receives or will receive from a person other than the client an inducement in relation to a service
provided to the client, in the form of money, goods or services, other than the standard commission
or fee for that service.
The affected parties if conflict of interest arises can be the Company, its employees or its clients. More
specifically, a conflict of interest may arise, between the following parties:
3.1. INDEPENDENCE
The following measures have been adopted by the Company for ensuring the requisite degree of
independence
• Separate supervision of relevant persons whose principal functions involve carrying out activities on
behalf of, or providing services to, clients whose interests may conflict, or who otherwise represent different
interests that may conflict, including those of the Company. The Company’s department whose interests may
conflict with clients are:
o Dealing Room
• Removal of any direct link between the remuneration of relevant persons principally engaged with
one activity and the remuneration of, or revenues generated by, different relevant persons principally
engaged in another activity, where a conflict of interest may arise in relation to those activities:
o Dealing room employees do not relate their remuneration with clients’ performance.
• Measures to prevent or limit any person from exercising inappropriate influence over the way in
which a relevant person carries out investment or ancillary services or activities. Additionally, the person who
decides or influences an individual’s bonus may exert undue influence over that individual’s integrity of
judgment.
• fully engage in the implementation of policies, procedures and arrangements for the identification,
management and ongoing monitoring of conflicts of interest;
• adopt a holistic view to ensure the identification of potential and emerging conflicts within and
across business lines and to ensure that informed judgements are made with respect to materiality;
• raise awareness and ensure compliance of relevant individuals by ensuring: regular training
(including to contractors and third party service providers’ staff) both at induction and in the form of refresher
training; the clear communication of policies, procedures and expectations; that awareness of conflicts
procedures forms part of the performance review/appraisal process, and that the best practice is shared
throughout the Company.
• sponsor robust systems and controls and effective regular reviews to ensure that strategies and
controls used to manage and mitigate risks remain appropriate and effective and that appropriate warnings
and disclosures are issued to clients where necessary;
The Company has constructed adequate Chinese Walls, in accordance with the legal requirements between
its departments and has established clear lines of responsibility, in order to avoid the flow of information
held by a person in the course of carrying out a part of its business to be withheld from or used by persons
who are in the process of carrying out another part of its business.
In particular, physical barriers have been established in order the flow of information is restricted between
employees, access has been limited in relation to information and documentation and communication has
been restricted between certain employees during the course of carrying out their parts of business.
When the measures taken by the Company to manage conflicts of interest are not sufficient to ensure, with
reasonable confidence, that the risk of damage to clients’ interests will be prevented, the Company will
disclose the conflicts of interest to the client in order to prevent a risk of damage to clients’ interests. Prior to
carrying out a transaction or providing an investment or an ancillary service to a client, the Company must
disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest. The disclosure will be in sufficient time, in a durable means.
In the case of identification of a possible conflict of interest, a staff member must refer it initially to his
immediate supervisor to assist in the assessment of a material risk of damage and send a completed
Notification Form together with full details to allow regulatory scrutiny, of:
6. RECORD-KEEPING
In accordance with the requirements of FSC, the Company maintains records, which are regularly
monitored and updated, of the kinds of investments and ancillary services or investment activities carried
out by the Company or on its behalf in which there is a risk for conflict of interest that may damage the
interests of one or more clients has arisen.
Any conflict of interest shall be reported to the Company’s CEO and Compliance Officer, who shall be
responsible for keeping records of conflicts of interest.