Training and Development
A core part of delivering the outcomes your clients are looking for is making sure that your team are well trained and well qualified. We can work with you to help train you and your team.
Training
We can deliver specific training sessions on a wide variety of subjects including:
- Sustainable Finance Concepts (SDR, Greenwashing, Basic Sustainability, Sustainable Finance, ESG, Social and Ethical Investment)
- Behavioural Finance Concepts
- Financial Planning Theory
- Writing Better Suitability Reports
- Supervision Training
- Regulatory Changes
- Introduction to Financial Services Concepts
FCA Conduct Rules - Anti Money Laundering and Financial Crime Prevention / Bribery and Corruption Prevention
- Market Abuse Awareness
If the training you are looking for is not listed above, do please get in touch as these are just the areas which we have been asked to present on recently. If we can help we will; if we can’t we will do our best to connect you to someone in our network who can!
Development
Effective Continual Professional Development (CPD) planning is vitally important to ensure that the activities you undertake as part of your personal development are relevant. Every financial planner is required to complete at least 35 hours of CPD activity each year. How much of that time is effective and how much of it is spent listening to the same people tell you the same things? Are you really learning anything new?
We can help identify appropriate training needs with the objective of helping you and you team get better at what you do.
Collaboration
We are very pleased to be working in collaboration with Michaela Pashley and colleagues at Practical Financial Exams (PFE) in the development of advanced training materials and assessment of their SQA Level 9 (equivalent of OFQUAL Level 6) Practical Investment Planning qualification.
Service Details
Online or In Person?
We are happy delivering training online, in person or in a hybrid approach. Where necessary we wil travel anywhere in the UK and Northern Ireland to deliver training if an in-person session is required. Many of our clients now opt for a hybrid approach, meaning that some sessions will be delivered online and some in-person. As our service is bespoke we will agree with you how you want us to deliver the training you need.
Competency Assessment
We have developed a comprehensive approach to competency assessment for new advisers which we can tailor to your firm. This involved digitally recording face to face case study meetings, suitability report reviews and comprehensive feedback to improve development.
Training Portal
We are working with Leslie Learning to bring clients of Unburdened Solutions a training portal for on-demand training videos on core subjects such as the FCA Conduct Rules, Anti Money-Laundering and Market Abuse which we aim to launch in 2025.