Rory Percival, the former FCA technical specialist, is set to reveal the results of his review into the risk profiling tools market.

He will deliver his findings to over 400 Financial Planners, Paraplanners, advisers, and wealth managers at the Morningstar Investment Conference UK next month.

The independent consultant, who left the regulator last Autumn, will give a presentation entitled: Risk Profiling Tools: the good, the bad and the ugly.

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Morningstar stated: “Rory Percival has been reviewing the main risk profiling tools and will disclose his key research outcomes, covering how the tools fare when assessed against the regulator’s guidance (FG11/5), going around the good and poor practice, highlighting what the tools can and cannot do and finally showing how these tools should practically be used by firms.”

In December Mr Percival told Financial Planning Today that many problems surrounding risk profiling that were laid bare in an FSA report six years ago still exist.

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He warned that there has been a lack of progress in the sector since the finalised guidance on assessing suitability in paper FG11/5 was set out.

He has strongly encouraged Financial Planning professionals to look at the document again.

In 2011, the FSA said the “level of failure in this area is unacceptable.”
Mr Percival is one of a number of guest speakers at the event, which will bring together economists, leading fund managers, academics and industry experts to examine the key concerns and opportunities for investors.

Other speakers include:

• Ariel Bezalel, Head of Strategy, Fixed Income, Jupiter Asset Management, on how bond fund managers can find special situations across sectors and geographic regions whilst maintaining the management of downside risk
• Iain Stewart, Investment Leader of the Real Return team, Newton Investment Management, on why he believes no one can promise absolute returns
• Ezra Sun, Fund Manager and Head of Asia Veritas Asset Management LLP, on the economic outlook for Asia Pacific ex Japan and structural growth investment opportunities for equities across the region
• Anna Stupnytska, Global Economist, Fidelity Multi Asset, with insight into the key themes shaping the global macroeconomic landscape and her outlook for growth, inflation, and policy across major economies

The Morningstar Investment Conference UK will be held in London on 9 and 10 May 2017 at the Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel, near Vauxhall.