Appropriateness questionnaire

Feel confident about your choice of complex investment products

Take a short quiz to assess the level of your knowledge and experience to understand risks associated with investments.
The purpose of this questionnaire is to determine whether an investment product is appropriate for you or not.
This questionnaire is mandatory before you purchase complex investment products.

Why to fill the questionnaire?

When buying a complex investment product for the first time, we have to assess your appropriateness.
The purpose of this questionnaire is to determine whether you have the knowledge and competence to understand the risks associated with complex investment products you want to buy.

How it helps me?

This questionnaire will determine whether an investment into product is appropriate for you or not.

If the assessment result for a product group is “not appropriate”, we consider that you may put yourself in a position where the risk assumed by you does not correspond to your knowledge and experience, or that you may not be able to understand the risks related to investing in such products.

How to fill the questionnaire?

Choose product group related to your planned investment and answer questions.
We will perform Appropriateness assessment based on information you have provided in this questionnaire.
Filled in questionnaire is valid for 5 years or until you fill in the questionnaire again.

You can fill in questionnaire for selected product group once per day.

Product group definitions

Complex equity products	Shares that are not traded on regulated markets, multilateral trading facilities, organised trading facilities or similar trading facilities outside the EU. Preference shares that embed a derivative, convertible shares and similar instruments. Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
Complex funds	Real estate funds Private equity funds Hedge funds Venture capital funds Funds with other unusual underlying that are established either: as a structured UCITS under UCITS Directive (including leveraged or inverse exchange-traded funds), as an alternative investment fund under Alternative Investment Funds Management Directive (AIFMD), in another format recognized outside the EU.
Complex bonds	Bonds and money-market instruments of the following type: Convertible and exchangeable bonds, indexed bonds and turbo certificates, contingent convertible bonds, callable or puttable bonds, credit-linked notes; Bonds and money market instruments which return is dependent on the performance of an asset pool, that are subordinated, where issuer can modify cash flows, that have no maturity date, that have unusual or unfamiliar underlying, that have complex return calculation methodology, where the principal may not be fully repaid or may be bailed-in, that have conditional or complex guarantee mechanism; that have leverage features; Bonds that are not traded on regulated markets, multilateral trading facilities, organised trading facilities or similar trading facilities outside the EU; Exchange-traded notes (ETNs); Exchange-traded commodities (ETCs).
Interest rate swaps	Bilateral agreements to exchange cash flows at specified intervals (payment dates) during the agreed-upon life of the transaction (maturity or tenor) that have interest rates as underlying, including currency interest rate swaps (CIRS).
FX forwards and FX swaps	Forwards - customized bilateral agreement to exchange an asset or cash flows at a specified future settlement date at a (forward) price agreed on the trade date that have foreign exchange as underlying. Swaps - bilateral agreements to exchange cash flows at specified intervals (payment dates) during the agreed-upon life of the transaction (maturity or tenor) that have foreign exchange as underlying.
Futures	Exchange traded standardized derivative contracts tracking price of underlying assets, where a buyer and a seller have an obligation to settle transaction at specified time in the future.
Options	Agreements that give the buyer, who pays a fee (premium), the right — but not the obligation — to buy or sell a specified amount of an underlying asset at an agreed upon price (strike price) on or until the expiration of the contract (expiry), and which have foreign exchange, securities, interest rates or commodities as underlying.
Simple shares	Shares that are traded on regulated markets, multilateral trading facilities or similar trading facilities outside the EU.
Simple funds	Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) created under the UCITS Directive.
Simple bonds	Bonds that are traded on regulated markets, multilateral trading facilities or similar trading facilities outside the EU. Instruments such as treasury bills, certificates of deposit or commercial papers that are usually traded on money market if such instruments have a value that can be determined at any time, if such instruments are not derivatives and if such instruments have a maturity of 397 days or less at issuance.
Subscription rights and warrants	Securities granting their holder the right to purchase within a pre-determined time their underlying securities in a guaranteed amount or for a price less than the market price, or if such right is not exercised, sell such securities in the secondary market or let them expire.

Appropriateness

Appropriate	According to the provided data, the filler of the risk questionnaire has sufficient knowledge and experience for trading with the selected securities or using the selected services and is able to adequately evaluate the risks involved.
Not appropriate	According to the provided data, the filler of the risk questionnaire has insufficient knowledge and experience for trading with the selected securities or using the selected services and is unable to adequately evaluate the risks involved.