Where a product is subject to frontloading it must state that the deductions for charges and expenses are not made uniformly to the life of the product that are loaded onto an early period that if the consumer withdraws from the product in the early period, the practice of frontloading will impact on the amount of money which the consumer receives and that the consumer may not get the full amount back invested.<\/p>\n
Where an interest rate is applicable to a proportion of a tracker bond is placed on deposits, the advertisement must also clearly indicate whether the rate is variable or fixed and, if fixed for what period, the relevant compound annual rate over the full term of the tracker bond applicable to the part put on deposits and whether tax is payable on the interest earned.\u00a0 Each rate provided to a consumer must be of equal font size and prominence.<\/p>\n
Where a projected return on investment or a tracker bond is advertised it must ensure that the value of the projected rate is expressed and is shown as prominently as the equivalent compound annual rate.\u00a0 Where the projected rate of return for a tracker bond is advertised, and the parts of the bond are invested separately, the value of the return on the amount invested in each of the component parts over the full term must be expressed and shown as prominently as the equivalent compound annual rate.<\/p>\n\n
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General Advertising Rules The following rules apply to advertisements by regulated financial service providers other than those specifically regulated by the European Union Consumer Credit Act Regulations 2010.An advertisement is any commercial communication in respect of a regulated entity addressed to the consumer public or a section of it, the purpose of which is to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12782"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31934,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12782\/revisions\/31934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}