Summary of SPOT inspections of the promotional materials for French and foreign collective investment schemes (CISs) marketed by distributors - focus on ESG aspects

One of the key elements in retail investor protection is the dissemination of clear, accurate and non-misleading information to investors by market participants. This triple regulatory requirement applies to all the information that an investment services provider (hereinafter, "ISP") is liable to provide to its clients or prospective clients, including promotional marketing material, whether this is prepared by the ISP itself or by the portfolio asset management company (hereinafter, "AMC") of the collective investment undertaking (hereinafter,"CIU") being distributed.