Legitimate purposes

This one is not written up yet

The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.

Written up from the same chapter

• Connected personA person whose association with a company in the six months before the act put them, or could reasonably be expected to put them, in a position to access unpublished price sensitive information.
• Contra trade restrictionThe cooling period of not less than six months — two months for mutual fund units — during which a designated person who has been permitted to trade may not take the opposite side of that trade.
• Deemed connected personsCategories of people the insider trading rules treat as connected automatically — relatives, group companies, trustees, bankers, auditors — unless the person proves the contrary.
• Designated personsThe people a listed company, intermediary or fiduciary formally names as subject to its insider trading code of conduct, chosen by the access their role gives to price sensitive information.
• Generally available informationInformation accessible to the public on a non-discriminatory basis — the opposite pole of unpublished price sensitive information, and expressly not including unverified media reports.
• Immediate relativeA spouse, plus any parent, sibling or child of the person or of the spouse who is either financially dependent on them or consults them on securities trading decisions.