Source: BUS Sachsen-Anhalt (Linie6PLus)

Apply for a permit for fee-based financial investment advisors

Description

You need a trade permit for your work as a fee-based financial investment advisor if you

advise on transactions with certain financial instruments and your recommendation is based on an examination of the personal circumstances of the investor (§ 1 paragraph 1a number 1a of the Banking Act),
advise professionally on financial investments within the meaning of § 34f paragraph 1 number 1, 2, or 3 of the Industrial Code and
this advice is not remunerated on a commission basis of a provider of financial investments, but only against a fee from your customer.

The installations referred to in § 34f paragraph 1 number 1, 2, or 3 of the Industrial Code are:

shares or shares in domestic open-ended investment funds, open-ended EU investment funds or foreign open-ended investment funds that may be marketed in accordance with the Capital Investment Code (open-ended funds),
shares or shares in domestic closed-end investment funds, closed-end EU investment funds or foreign closed-end investment funds that may be marketed in accordance with the Capital Investment Code (closed-end funds) and
Investments within the meaning of § 1 paragraph 2 of the Asset Investment Act (e.B company participations, profit participation rights, participatory loans, subordinated loans).

The fee-based financial investment advisor may also broker these products to the customer, but must then forward a donation (commission) that he receives from the product provider to the customer.

Prerequisites

Permission to become a commercial trader as a fee-based financial investment advisor is granted to you if you

are reliable,
live in orderly financial circumstances,
be able to prove professional indemnity insurance and
have successfully passed a competency examination at a chamber of industry and commerce or can prove this required competence by means of an equivalent professional qualification.

Required documents

For the audit to obtain permission to act as a fee-based financial investment advisor, you must submit the following documents:

a certificate of good conduct for submission to an authority
an extract from the Central Trade Register,
if applicable, a certificate in tax matters of the tax office,
if applicable, a clearance certificate from the municipal tax office,
an extract from the register of debtors of the central enforcement court,
if applicable, the information of the insolvency court on the freedom from insolvency and on the rejection of the opening of proceedings for lack of assets,
proof of professional indemnity insurance,
proof of the required expertise and
for legal entities and commercial partnerships: the extract from the commercial register

Responsible body

Please contact the responsible district or the responsible district-free city.

You must apply for permission to work as a fee-based financial investment advisor to the competent authority. Depending on the federal state, this is the trade authority or the Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Individuals (natural persons) apply for permission themselves or through authorized third parties. In the case of legal persons, the application is made by their legal representatives or by third parties authorised in writing.

2. Notice of permission

Permission will be granted to you in the form of a permit notice.

3. Entry of permission

After taking up the activity as a fee-based financial investment broker, you must immediately submit an application for entry in the register in accordance with § 11a paragraph 1 of the Trade Code

Further information

1. Scope of permission

You can apply for permission to act as a fee-based financial investment advisor for all product categories (open-ended funds, closed-end funds, investments within the meaning of § 1 paragraph 2 of the Asset Investment Act), but it can also be limited to individual categories.

2. No double licence for financial investment intermediaries and fee-based financial investment advisors

The permission to work as a financial investment broker according to § 34f Gewerbeordnung and as a fee-based financial investment consultant according to § 34h Gewerbeordnung are mutually exclusive. Anyone who already holds a permit as a financial investment intermediary can only obtain a permit as a fee-based financial investment advisor if he waives the permission as a financial investment intermediary.