Compliance Essentials for Asset Management
Fund management compliance rarely fails on a headline rule. It fails on the daily practices around it: a suitability assessment recorded too thinly, a marketing deck that outran the prospectus, a personal account trade nobody declared, a fee calculation that quietly drifted from the mandate. This day works through the obligations a Malaysian asset management operation carries and the controls that keep them met when the desk is busy.
Programme Agenda
The Regulatory Perimeter
Licensing and registration obligations, permitted activities, conditions attaching to the licence, and the notification duties triggered by changes in key personnel, shareholding or business model.
Client Assets and Segregation
Custody arrangements, segregation requirements, reconciliation frequency and breaks. What a client asset breach looks like before anyone notices it is one.
Suitability and Client Onboarding
Client classification, risk profiling, mandate documentation and the suitability assessment record. Handling a client who wants something outside their profile.
Marketing, Distribution and Disclosure
What can be said about performance, the treatment of projections and past returns, approval of marketing material, and the rules that apply when distribution runs through third parties.
Conflicts of Interest and Personal Account Dealing
Identifying conflicts across allocation, soft commissions, related party transactions and cross trades. Personal account dealing policy, pre-clearance and the monitoring that makes it real.
Trade Practice and Best Execution
Order handling, allocation fairness, error correction and the documentation of an execution decision. Why allocation disputes are the ones that reach the regulator.
Reporting, Records and Breach Handling
Periodic regulatory submissions, record retention, and the internal process for identifying, escalating and reporting a breach. Self-reporting decisions and their consequences.
Compliance Monitoring Programme
Participants build a monitoring plan: what to test, how often, sample sizes, and the reporting format that gets attention from a board rather than filed.
Learning Outcomes:
State the licensing conditions and notification duties your operation carries
Operate client asset segregation and reconciliation to standard
Document a suitability assessment that supports the mandate given
Approve marketing material against the disclosure rules
Identify and manage conflicts of interest including personal account dealing
Apply fair allocation and defensible best execution practice
Handle a breach from identification through to reporting
Build a compliance monitoring programme sized to your operation
Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)
Training Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Level: Beginner
Training Mode: Physical, Online, or Hybrid
HRD Corp SBL-KHAS Claimable
Certificate of Completion included
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