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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analyze the client's investment needs. |    |  
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distribute a detailed, written research report to clients with each recommendation. |    |  
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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.    |