Question

You are employed by a bank with the title financial adviser. In your capacity at the bank, you are required to hold a general securities registration in order to provide information on securities and to process orders. Your sponsoring broker-dealer is an affiliated firm owned by the bank holding company that also owns the bank you work for. A client comes to the bank seeking advice on certificates of deposit offered by the bank as well as mutual fund investments. Under the Uniform Securities Act, which of the following choices BEST describes what you are allowed to do when giving advice to the client?

- You are not allowed to advise the client since the bank is not an investment adviser
- You may give the client advice since the broker-dealer and the bank are excluded from the definition of an investment adviser
- You may give the client advice only on the mutual funds since certificates of deposit are governed by banking rules and you are registered with a broker-dealer
- You may not give advice on the certificates of deposit since the bank is not a registered investment adviser

Answer 1

- You may give the client advice since the broker-dealer and the bank are excluded from the definition of an investment adviser

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the uniform securities act, the following describes that you are permitted to do at the time when you are giving suggestions to the client

As we know that the broker or dealer as the case may be & the bank would not be included in the investment advisor definition

iSo the same would be considered for the given situation

Hence, the second option is correct