What type of financial adviser will you be required to be?

    Advice
"Make or making a recommendation or give or giving an opinion in relation to acquiring or disposing of (including refraining from acquiring or disposing of) a financial product"
 
Broker Services
“Receipt, holding, or payment of client money or client property by a person acting on behalf of a client.”
 
Investment Planning Service
‘Designs, or offers to design, a plan for an individual that -
• Is based on, or purports to be based on, an analysis of the individual’s current and future overall financial situation (including his or her investment needs) and identification of the individual’s investment goals; and
• Includes 1 or more recommendations or opinions on how to realise those goals (or one or more of them).
 
Individual Category 1 products Authorised Financial Adviser (AFA) Broker AFA
Category 2 products Registered Financial Advise (RFA) Broker AFA

Employee / nominated representative
of a QFE
Category 1 products
(NOT issued by QFE)
 
AFA Broker AFA
Category 1 products
(Issued/Promoted by QFE)
 
Category 1 adviser
(Same requirements as an AFA, but not registered or authorised)
 
Broker AFA
Category 2 products Category 2 adviser
(Same requirements as an RFA, but not registered)
 
Broker NA