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Ethical and Professional Standards

Guidance for Standards I–VII

Sell-side analyst Greta Albrecht covers Vantor Industries while her firm's banking division negotiates a large underwriting mandate with the company. Her updated model now supports a downgrade to sell, and bankers warn that publishing it will end the mandate. Her research director proposes that the firm stop issuing recommendations on Vantor, place the company on a restricted list, and distribute only factual information about it. The proposal is best described as:

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