This Investor Suitability Assessment Form ("Assessment Form") is designed to understand your/the client’s financial situation, investment experience, investment objectives, risk appetite and risk tolerance level, etc. helping you/the client to identify whether an investment product would be suitable for you/the client. In case of joint account or corporate account where there are
more than one investment decision maker, every account holder/ investment decision maker should be completing one separate Assessment Form.
The information that you/the client provided will form the basis of our assessment. It is important for you/the client to provide valid, true, accurate, up-to-date and complete information to make reasonable suitability assessment according to your/the client’s financial situation & needs, investment experience, investment objectives & horizon, liquidity risk appetite and risk
tolerance level. Failure in doing so would affect the result of the suitability assessment.
If you/the client are/is aged 65 or above or have an education level of Primary 6 or below, or have an investable assets of US$100,000 or below, you/the client are/is strongly advised to visit our office and be accompanied by a family member, a close relative or a friend (each hereinafter called a “Companion/Witness”) to complete this form. If you/the client complete this
Assessment Form on your own/self and return this Assessment Form to us, we will deem that you/the client DO NOT require to be accompanied by any Companion for completing this Assessment Form.
Please answer the following questions by reference to your/the client's general attitude to wards making investments, and NOT by reference to your/the client's attitude towards investing in any particular investment product.
When answering questions about your/the client's financial or investment information, such as the amount of investable assets, or transactions of securities, please refer to ALL your/the client's holdings and transactions in GLOBAL as well as those in other banks, securities firms and financial institutions, and not solely those in GLOBAL.
If there is any change in circumstances which may affect your/the client’s answers to the questions herein (including but not limited to investment objectives, investment horizon, liquidity needs, financial situation, financial needs, risk appetite, risk tolerance level materially, etc.) , you/the client should contact your/the client’s designated account executive or our
investment service licensed officer to re-conduct assessment herein.
Should there are any inconsistencies between the English version and the Chinese version of this Assessment Form, the English version shall prevail.