Execution-only dealing service
(Barclays Investment Solutions)
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We will execute and arrange settlement in transactions for you when you instruct us to do so. We do not advise you on transactions, i.e., we do not provide you with any personal recommendations based on your personal circumstances.
As we provide execution-only services:
- We do not have to ensure that the transaction is suitable for you.
- You should ensure you have appropriate information to enable you to make your own independent assessment of each order and transaction.
- We are not liable for any losses you suffer as a result of relying on any representations, tools, or information you receive from us, because these are not recommendations or advice.
We will sometimes need to obtain certain information from you to ensure you have the necessary experience and knowledge to understand the risks involved in relation to the product or investment services which you are seeking from us. This is only applicable for complex products, such as leveraged funds.
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Smart Investor Terms page 15
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How we provide our execution-only service
(Barclays Investment Solutions)
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You can only give us instructions to execute orders which relate to investments available through your account. You cannot tell us to sell any assets that you do not own.
When we execute transactions for you, we will act in line with our Best Execution Policy, which you can find on our website here. We may deal with other investment firms to carry out your instructions in line with our Best Execution Policy. We may not be able to obtain the best price or result that would otherwise be available to you where you give us specific dealing instructions.
We will not act on your instruction if there is not enough cash or assets in your account. If you are unable to settle in full within the relevant settlement cycle (two working days for most UK securities), we can:
- If practicable, not execute the transaction
- Settle the transaction on your behalf at our expense and recover that expense from you
- Sell the investments for which settlement is outstanding to recover any shortfall, and
- Sell your other assets to recover any shortfall.
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Smart Investor Terms page 16
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Types of orders you can place
(Barclays Investment Solutions)
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These are some of the different types of orders you can place with us through your account:
- Regular investment order: An order to purchase a particular security on one or a number of pre-defined dates in a month. You can specify how much you want to purchase, based on a percentage of the amount of cash in your account, or give us a specific value.
- At best order: An order to buy or sell a security at the best price available to us in the relevant market for the size of your order at the time we deal it. At best orders guarantee execution for the entire size of the order where there is a willing counterparty but does not guarantee the price at which your order is dealt at.
- Fund order: This is the same as an at best order, except it is an order to buy or sell a fund (otherwise known as an open-ended investment company). We place the order with the managers of the fund, rather than on a market or exchange.
- Quote & Deal order: An order to buy or sell a security at a specified price we make available to you while the market is open. This type of order guarantees execution and dealing at the specified price, if there is a willing counterparty.
- Limit order: An order to buy or sell a security when you set the threshold price (i.e. A price ceiling when buying and a price floor when selling). We will only execute the order if the conditions set by you are met. You can find more detailed information in the Account Literature.
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Smart Investor Terms page 17
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Custody services
(Barclays Investment Solutions)
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Where we hold your assets in custody, we’ll keep your assets separate from ours. We’ll maintain records that show that the assets we’re holding belong to you so that investments can be traced back to you if we become insolvent.
We may appoint other members of the Barclays Group or third parties to hold your assets, including sub-custodians and nominee companies.
Assets held with third parties will usually be held in a “pooled” account (i.e. together with the assets for all our clients). If there are not sufficient assets held in these accounts (e.g. because of insolvency of the third party), you may have to share in the shortfall with other clients of ours. It may be possible for you to have your assets in an individually segregated account, but you may have to pay extra for this.
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Smart Investor Terms page 22-23
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Investment ISA
(Barclays Investment Solutions)
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If you have opened an Investment ISA, Barclays Investment Solutions will act as your ISA manager.
You can open and subscribe to an Investment ISA if you are:
- A tax resident in the UK and aged 18 or over, or
- Married to, or in a civil partnership with a Crown Employee working outside the UK.
You must tell us immediately if you are no longer eligible for an Investment ISA. Subscriptions by you to the Investment ISA may not exceed the maximum subscription limit permitted by the prevailing ISA regulations in any tax year. We can tell you what the maximum subscription limit is.
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Smart Investor Terms page 26 - 27
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Investment Saver Account
(Barclays Bank UK)
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Barclays Bank UK may hold your cash on deposit in an Investment Saver Account. The Investment Saver Account is used for holding cash that is not committed to investment transactions you are making through your Investment Account with Barclays Investment Solutions. The Investment Saver Account is part of the Smart Investor service. It does not offer normal daily banking facilities, such as payment cards, direct debits, or third-party payments.
You have given Barclays Investment Solutions authority to pass on instructions you give to Barclays Bank UK, where the instructions relate to managing your Investment Saver Account. Barclays Bank UK will accept instructions given by Barclays Investment Solutions on your behalf.
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Smart Investor Terms page 28 - 30
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We will not act on instructions from any one joint account holder to register shares in a single name, change the account address details or to close an account. In these situations, all joint account holders must give instructions.
- Where you and at least another person are joint account holders, you’re each responsible for the money owed to us (unless we agree otherwise in writing).
- Any of you can give us instructions, for example: sell assets, withdraw assets, or close an account.
- If we think there’s a dispute or conflict of interest between joint account holders, we’ll ask for individual instructions from each of you.
- We’ll send the information about the account to the person named first on the account, unless you request differently. Any of you can receive notices from us on behalf of the other account holders.
- You can ask us to remove someone from a joint account, or convert the account to a sole-person account. We might need permission from all the account holders to be able to do either of those options.
- If a joint account holder dies, the other joint account holder(s) can continue using the account. The money is not part of the deceased person’s estate. However, we may have to act on the instructions of the deceased person’s personal representative or liquidator.
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Smart Investor Terms page 7
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Cancelling the service or product
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If you change your mind, you may cancel a service / product contract with us within 14 calendar days (subject to exceptions). This right to cancel applies to your Investment Account, Investment ISA, and Investment Saver Account separately.
The cancellation period starts:
- On the date on which we agree to provide that service / product, or
- If later, the date that you receive the terms.
You can send us instructions to cancel a product or service in the usual way that you provide us with instructions. We will not charge you any fees for cancelling a service / product, but you will bear any costs, if we have carried out transactions on your behalf during the cancellation period.
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Smart Investor Terms page 6
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