| Session 1: Ethical and Professional Standards Reading 2-V: Standards of Professional Conduct & Guidance: Investment Analysis, Recommendations, and Action
 
 
 LOS C.: Record Retention.       According to CFA Institute Standards of Professional Conduct, members should do all of the following to meet the compliance procedures for having a reasonable basis for recommendations, EXCEPT: 
 
 
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| A) | analyze the client's investment needs. |  |  
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| B) | distribute a detailed, written research report to clients with each recommendation. |  |  
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| C) | analyze the investment's basic characteristics before recommending a specific investment to a broad client group. |  |  
 
 
 
Standard V(C), Record Retention, requires that members maintain appropriate records to support the reasonableness of such recommendations or actions, but they are not required to distribute a research report with each recommendation.  |