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Complex instrument

The Client Agreement’s name for the leveraged notes, the one complex product Thalvia offers. Their risks are harder to judge than a share’s, so a client must pass the appropriateness test before a first order in them. Clause 2, “Complex Instrument” · Chapter 4 · see Leveraged note, Appropriateness test

Explained in Chapter 4, Opening an Account: Execution-Only, Appropriateness and Advice, of European Brokerage.

How it comes up, in Chapter 4
The leveraged notes are not simple. The Client Agreement calls them “Complex Instruments” and defines them like this…
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As defined in the training Client Agreement
means a leveraged or inverse exchange-traded note that we offer: a debt security issued by a bank, which promises to pay a multiple of one day's rise or fall in an index;
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