What is PRIIPs?

  • Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) – EU regulation,
  • Communication to retail investors,
  • Application from 1st January 2018,
  • Obligation for the manufacturer (insurer, banker,…) to pre-contractually provide a Key Information Document (KID), satisfying very strict requirements on the form and the technical content,
  • Aim: to improve the comparability of products and to ensure a better understanding for non-professional investors by more transparency on risks, performance, costs and other relevant information linked to the profile of the product as well as the underlying assets
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The main difficulties linked to KIDs production are:

  • Data recovery,
  • Data availability and quality,
  • Systematic controls (completeness, accuracy, consistency, …),
  • Product’s offer analyse: rationalization, simplification, repository product/investment support, …
  • Profiling approach for unit-linked offer if too much funds are proposed,
  • Several teams sought :Actuarial department, Investment compliance department, Product department, Project department, Marketing, Legal, …
  • Litigation risk,
  • Risk of misunderstanding by clients.

 

What Act-unity can do for you:

Support for actuarial department:

  • Controls: validation of the different steps of calculation, consistency of developments with the regulation specificities,…
  • Developments: the regulation classifies the assets into 4 categories that require different calculation methods to obtain the information to inscribe in the risk section of the KID. Our help can consist in:
    • Presenting in details the 4 categories methodology, to avoid you to spend lots of time to read and understand the Regulation,
    • Helping you to implement your PRIIPs solution by understanding your needs and developing the calculations,
    • If necessary, helping you to analyse your portfolio to lead to choices of hypothesis.

 

Project management help:

  • If the project isn’t already started, Act-unity can help you to have a view on the project as a whole:
    • A summary of the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) can be presented to the company and technical aspects can be explored,
    • Act-unity can help you to analyse your business to determine the process.
  • If the project is already started, Act-unity may constitute a reinforcement to face a punctual workload.