Elements and Performance Criteria
- Interpret research requirements
- Review and quantify client information and objectives, and establish research topics
- Check specifications of products and/or services to be researched with senior financial planner
- Establish and accurately interpret aims and objectives of research, and measure against client requirements and expectations
- Establish timeframes and prioritise requests to ensure available information is useable and justifiable
- Research financial products and strategies to set guidelines
- Ensure data extraction criteria are relevant to intended use and client requirements
- Identify trends to provide meaningful information on strategies and product performance
- Identify potential risk factors associated with researched strategies and products
- Analyse financial products and strategies within appropriate timeframes to ensure currency of decision making
- Identify issues that require specialist and/or independent research or advice
- Summarise research information and contribute to recommendations
- Collate, prioritise and check information on financial strategies and products against research specification
- Analyse research for completeness and assess for relevant implications of information
- Prepare written performance, trend and risk analyses and check against research specification
- Define and record any qualifications or issues for further research
- Provide recommendations to financial planning process according to organisational procedures and guidelines