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Effective: 1 January, 2020Categories: Providing GIPS ReportsSource: 2020 GIPS StandardsWe provide a GIPS Report to all prospective clients and prospective investors when we first meet with them. However, we often are in discussions with large prospective clients and prospective investors for many months, if not years. We send them updated performance information quarterly, but the updates do not include a GIPS Report. Must the quarterly updates include a GIPS Report?
No. The firm is required to provide a GIPS Report to prospective clients and prospective investors when they initially become a prospective client or prospective investor (together, prospects). If the prospect remains a prospect, the firm must provide an updated GIPS Report at least once every 12 months. The firm is not required to provide a GIPS Report with each quarterly update.
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