Aviva has today announced the launch of a new online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) tool, designed to give Financial Planners access to relevant CPD in order to demonstrate their continuing competence post-RDR.
Steve Helmlich, the chairman of the global Financial Planning Standards Board, says the number of Certified Financial Planner professional around the world should top 150,000 this year.
David Geale, head of investment policy at the FSA, told a global gathering of Financial Planners in Wales today that the new Financial Conduct Authority would be more interventionist and ban products where consumers were at risk.
On current trends it will be around 2040 before UK private-sector defined benefit (DB) pension schemes can fully de-risk unless they consider alternative strategies, according to global professional services company Towers Watson.
George Kinder, the US founder of the global Life Planning movement, believes the RDR will be the catalyst for more advisers making the step to Life Planning.
Hornbuckle Mitchell is calling on Sipp providers to be more transparent with their capital adequacy reserves as advisers focus on the financial stability of their chosen product providers.
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