Important Information - Thorntons Investments

www.thorntons-investments.co.uk (“Website”) is owned and operated by Thorntons Investment Management Ltd (“the Firm”), registered in Scotland (No. SC438886), whose registered office is Whitehall House, 35 Yeaman Shore, Dundee DD1 4BU. “Thorntons Investments” is a trading name of Thorntons Investment Management Ltd, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 613500).

Please ensure that you read and understand these Terms and Conditions (“Terms”). By viewing and using this Website, you are deemed to have accepted the Terms. We reserve the right to amend or vary the Terms, or the Website content, at any time and at our sole discretion.

Intellectual Property

The contents of this Website are copyright of the Firm, unless otherwise stated. You may print or download extracts from this Website for your personal use, but otherwise you may not reproduce the whole or part of the contents of this Website or transmit the whole or part of the contents to another website without the express permission of the Firm. “Thorntons” and the Thorntons logo are trade marks of the Firm. You agree to comply with all applicable intellectual property laws in your use of the Website.

General information

This Website contains general information about the Firm’s investment services. No information in this Website constitutes financial advice, and use of this Website does not establish any professional or client relationship between you and the Firm. Please contact one of the Firm’s advisers/managers for specific financial or investment advice.

The value of investments and any income generated may go down as well as up and is not guaranteed. Investors may get back less than they have invested. Past performance is not a guide to future performance.

Warranty

The Firm takes steps to ensure the information on this Website is accurate and kept up to date; however, the information is given as general information only, and you must not use or rely on it for any other purpose. The information does not form part of any contract between you and the Firm. The Firm does not accept liability for any of the content of this Website. Although files are virus checked, no guarantee is given that files are free from computer viruses.

Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Firm shall not be liable to you or any other party for any loss or damage that results from the use of this Website, or reliance upon any information which appears in this Website. The Firm shall have no liability for any errors or omissions in information provided on this Website. The Firm reserves the right to withdraw or amend the service it provides via the Website without notice. The Firm will not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

Regulatory Bodies

The Firm is regulated and authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority for investment business in the United Kingdom.

MIFIDPRU 8 Disclosures

This document sets out the disclosures required under MIFIDPRU 8 for Thorntons Investment Management Ltd as of 31st May 2023, which is the end of the Firm’s last accounting period.

This disclosure will be made annually and updated if there are any significant changes during the intervening period. All MIFIDPRU 8 disclosures will be made on the Firm’s website here.

These disclosures relate to Thorntons Investments, Thorntons Investments is an SNI MIFIDPRU Investment firm, which is authorised and regulated by the FCA.Thorntons Investments is required to disclose on an individual firm basis and these disclosures have been prepared in line with the requirements of MIFIDPRU 8.

As an SNI MIFIDPRU firm under IFPR, we are required to disclose the following remuneration information regarding our remuneration policy and practices under MIFIDPRU 8 and the disclosure has been prepared on a solo basis and is proportionate to the size, internal organisation, and nature, scope and complexity of Thorntons Investments activities.

Dispute Resolution

If you are dissatisfied with any investment business conducted with the Firm, you are entitled to make a complaint. Please be assured we treat any complaints seriously and can provide a copy of our internal complaints procedure on request. Should you wish to register a complaint, please contact us:

In writing: The Compliance Officer, Thorntons Investment Management Ltd., Whitehall House, 35 Yeaman Shore, Dundee DD1 4BU.
By phone: 01382 797600
By e-mail: compliance@thorntons-investments.co.uk

For your further protection if you cannot settle your complaint with us, you may be entitled to refer it to the Financial Ombudsman Service (‘FOS’). FOS can be contacted on 0800 023 4 567 or 0300 123 9123 (from a mobile) or at www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk

Links

Links to other websites are provided for information only. The Firm has no control over the contents of those websites or resources. The Firm takes no responsibility for any such websites or the contents thereof, or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Social Media

Our social media accounts are hosted by independent providers (such as, Facebook, X , and LinkedIn) and we can’t control what they do.

Thorntons Investments encourage you to share our social media content, this includes articles and blog posts. Any comments or messages posted alongside our blogs/articles will be the views and/or opinions of that individual who is resharing that post and not necessarily the views of Thorntons Investments.

Our Social Media content, Blogs and articles may not contain risk warnings and so the contents of these articles and blog posts are solely for information purposes and are not intended as investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The value of an investment and income from it can fall as well as rise, past performance is no guarantee of future performance, and you may not get back the amount originally invested.

The information posted on our social media accounts is intended for residents of the United Kingdom only, unless stated. We may change the Social Media Guidelines from time to time and may also close our social media accounts without giving prior notice.

Privacy Policy

Please read our Privacy Policy which tells you how the Firm uses the information which you provide to us. Any and all personal information you provide will be processed in strict accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using this Website, you consent to such processing, and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.Governing law

Governing Law

These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Scots Law, and you agree that, in the event of any dispute, the matter will be dealt with only by the Scottish courts. This website is intended for residents of the United Kingdom only.

Meeting our obligations under the Revised Shareholder Rights Directive II (SRD II)

Under the proposals published by the FCA in its Policy Statement PS19/13, we are required by the aforementioned Directive to explain whether or not we have a Shareholder Engagement Policy in relation to the companies we invest in, where the companies’ shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market. As the proportion of shares we hold in investee companies is much lower than those held by large institutional investors, we are not able to engage with investee companies to the extent envisaged by SRD II. We do not therefore have a formal engagement policy.