One of our clients is organising an exam based revision day to be run by Neil Dickey, a fellow of the Personal Finance Society (PFS) and a Chartered Financial Planner. Neil is one of the UK’s most qualified and respected names in financial planning. Having started his career as an adviser, he has also worked as a paraplanner and more recently a freelance technical author and trainer.
Neil is running a free AF7 day organised by Fidelity on Thursday 29th March, and Friday 30th March is the additional day to develop further information presented on the course.
It is essential that you register and attend day 1 here.
Day 2 is being organised by Michael Carrick from Carrick Financial Management (CFM). The cost will be a maximum of £200 depending on numbers. CFM will underwrite the day but if there are sufficient attendees the cost will come down.
You can contact Michael to discuss any aspects of the course via telephone on 0191 2170007 or his email which is michael@carrickfinancialmanagement.net
FCS Transitional Arrangements
Steve Bailey Compliance Update
As you will be aware the Financial Services Authority ceased to be and the Financial Conduct Authority took over the regulation of financial advice firms on 01 April 2013.
The FSA issued PS13/05 last week which includes updated rules and transition arrangements. The policy statement itself is 88 pages but the ‘appendix (3)’ that accompanies it is a mere 1990 pages so you must excuse us for not as yet absorbing every word. The document can be seen here.