Question juridique clé
Whether the bank had a contractual duty to monitor the client’s portfolio and warn him to sell the Fairfield and Kingate investments.
Solution extraite
No such duty arose from the parties’ relationship, because the bank had no portfolio-management mandate and no ongoing investment-advisory contract including portfolio monitoring.
Motifs extraits
Occasional advice when new investments were made did not amount to a tacit portfolio-monitoring advisory agreement. A recommendation is current only when communicated and does not oblige the bank to warn later about changed circumstances absent a monitoring mandate.