SERIES 6 TEST CANDIDATES! BE PREPARED FOR QUESTIONS ON RETAIL COMMUNICATIONS, REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS FOR PRESENTING SEMINARS, LECTURES AND OTHER GROUP FORUMS
Planning to sit for the Series 6 in the near future? Don't go into the Series 6 Exam without careful preparation and study of FINRA's Rule 2210 on Retail Communications and required standards and content for Public Appearances. Why? Because FINRA tells us that this is an important subject in its Series 6 Content Outline. Bob Eder in his Study for the Series 6 Exam devotes all of Chapter One to FINRA's rule on retail communications and required standards for communicating with retail customers. Here's a section from FINRA Rule 2210 on Public Appearances: "Public Appearances (1) When sponsoring or participating in a seminar, forum, radio or television interview, or when otherwise engaged in public appearances or speaking activities that are unscripted and do not constitute retail communications, institutional communications or correspondence ("public appearance"), persons associated with members must follow the standards of paragraph (d)(1). (2) If an asso