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Orbex maintains and operates effective organisational and administrative arrangements with a view of taking all reasonable steps designed to prevent conflicts of interest from adversely affecting the interests of its clients.
Identification of Potential Conflicts of Interest
For the purposes of identifying the types of conflicts of interest that arise in the course of providing investment and non-core services or a combination thereof and whose existence may damage the interests of a client, the Company takes into account, by way of minimum criteria, the question of whether the Company or a relevant person, or a person directly or indirectly linked by control to the Company, is in any of the following situations, whether as a result of providing investment or ancillary services or investment activities:
- The Company or a relevant person is likely to make a financial gain, or avoid a financial loss, at the expense of the client;
- The Company or a relevant person has an interest in the outcome of a service provided to the client or of a transaction carried out on behalf of the client, which is distinct from the client’s interest in that outcome;
- The Company or a relevant person has a financial or other incentive to favour the interest of another client or group of clients over the interests of the client
- The Company or a relevant person carries on the same business as the client;
- The Company or a relevant person receives or will receive from a person other than the client, an inducement in relation to a service provided to the client, in the form of monies, goods or services, other than the standard commission or fee for that service.
Definition of a relevant person: means any of the following:
- a director, partner or equivalent, manager or tied agent of the firm;
- a director, partner or equivalent, or manager of any tied agent of the firm;
- an employee of the firm or of a tied agent of the firm, as well as any other natural person whose services are placed at the disposal and under the control of the firm or a tied agent of the firm and who is involved in the provision by the firm of investment services and activities;
- a natural person who is directly involved in the provision of services to the investment firm or to its tied agent under an outsourcing arrangement for the purpose of the provision by the firm of investment services and activities;
Managing Conflicts of Interest
The Company has established suitable and adequate internal procedures for minimising any potential conflicts of interest. The Company maintains a compliance department that is an independent unit within the Company. Some of the duties of the compliance officer are to monitor any possible deviation from the Company’s internal policies and procedures as well as to identify and manage any possible conflicts of interest. In addition, the internal audit function is outsourced to an audit firm.
The procedures followed and measures adopted in the Policy include the following, as are necessary and appropriate for the Company to ensure the requisite degree of independence:
- effective procedures to prevent or control the exchange of information between relevant persons engaged in activities involving a risk of a conflict of interest where the exchange of that information may harm the interests of one or more clients;
- the separate supervision of relevant persons whose principal functions involve carrying out activities on behalf of, or providing services to, clients whose interests may conflict, or who otherwise represent different interests that may conflict, including those of the Company;
- the removal of any direct link between the remuneration of relevant persons principally engaged in one activity and the remuneration of, or revenues generated by, different relevant persons principally engaged in another activity, where a conflict of interest may arise in relation to those activities;
- measures to prevent or limit any person from exercising inappropriate influence over the way in which a relevant person carries out investment or ancillary services or activities;
- measures to prevent or control the simultaneous or sequential involvement of a relevant person in separate investment or ancillary services or activities where such involvement may impair the proper management of the conflicts of interest.
Below, the Company states some of the policies and procedures that it has implemented for managing possible conflicts of interest:
- Establishment of Chinese Walls for preventing the communication of material non- public information between departments,
- In the case where the Company distributes marketing communication to its clients, it ensures that the said communication is reviewed and approved by the compliance officer prior to distribution. The compliance officer also ensures that such communication meets therelevant definition of marketing communication as well as having the appropriate disclosure statement.
- For avoiding any abuse of position, the four-eye principle is implemented,
- Personal account dealing restrictions are in place for minimizing the relevant person’s own transactions.
- For further details with regards to the Company’s conflicts of interest policies and procedures, you should contact the compliance department and request for such documentation.
Amendment / Review
The Company has the right to amend the current Policy at its discretion and at any time it considers is suitable and appropriate. The Company shall review and amend the current policy at least on an annual basis.
Where organizational or administrative arrangements made by the Company to manage conflicts of interest are not sufficient to ensure, with reasonable confidence, that risks of damage to client interests will be prevented, it shall clearly disclose the general nature and/or sources of conflicts of interest to the client before undertaking business on its behalf.