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CISI Partners With University Of London To Offer Masters Degree
May 16, 2013
Students at Queen Mary, University of London will now have the option of completing the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment’s Masters in wealth management. The opportunity follows the agreement signed between CISI and Queen Mary that recognises the university’s School of Economics and Finance as a centre of excellence in the field of financial services. This marks CISI’s first formal link between a university and its Masters degree programme.
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UK Firm To Offer Islamic Finance Qualification To Spanish Market
March 15, 2013
London-based Simply Sharia Human Capital, the recruitment and training business of the Simply Sharia provider of wealth management services, has signed a long-term training agreement with Spanish business school Escuela de Finanzas. SSHC will offer the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment’s Islamic Finance Qualification as part of the school’s CISI master’s degree programme in wealth management and Islamic finance. The programme is a five-part course covering financial markets, portfolio construction theory, applied wealth management, Islamic finance and skill .
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Majority Of UK Advisors Going Above And Beyond Minimum RDR Qualifications
November 2, 2012
As a heartening testament to the increasing professionalisation of the industry, new figures from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment show that nearly 80 per cent of UK advisors have exceeded the regulator’s new minimum qualification standard. The Financial Services Authority’s Retail Distribution Review, which comes into force at the end of December, dictates that UK advisors be qualified at QCF Level 4 (as opposed to the minimum Level 3). But the CISI says that 79 per cent of candidates coming through its system have in fact attained Level 6 or 7, rather t.
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CISI Chides FSA For "Dear Compliance Officer" Letter
October 11, 2012
The UK Financial Services Authority should be raising important issues at chief executive level, rather than writing to compliance officers only, according to a survey among the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment’s Compliance Professional Interest Forum. The survey was carried out in response to the fact that the FSA sent a “Dear Compliance Officer” letter across the industry this June, causing mixed reactions as to whether the regulator had got the target addressee right. The letter concerned the inappropriate marketing of unregulated investment schemes to retail i.
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EXCLUSIVE: “Empty Suits” No Way To Serve The UK Regions
October 9, 2012
Most of the big wealth managers are pouring resources into the UK regions at present, but their efforts to tap the ultra high net worth outside of London are doomed to failure until firms stop merely paying lip-service to serving clients locally, former UBS senior private banker Max Thowless-Reeves told WealthBriefing in a recent interview. Thowless-Reeves is the mastermind behind Sorbus Partners, a new Birmingham-based multi-family office, and he believes that the reason his new venture will succeed with UHNW clients where others have failed is simple: you have to be where your cli. .
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CISI, FINRA Sign MoU For New RDR Qualifications
August 9, 2012
The UK’s Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment and FINRA, the US regulator, have signed a memorandum of understanding which will provide FINRA member, UK-based retail investment advisors with a programme to meet the new UK exam standards. Under the UK Financial Services Authority’s Retail Distribution Review package of reforms, additional learning content and adherence to mandated ethical standards will be required by all holders of the US Series 7 qualification. This will be the case whether they are already authorised by the FSA or are seeking FSA authorisation as a .
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CISI Poll Reveals Two-Thirds Of Financial Services Professionals Mistrust Banking Industry
August 7, 2012
It seems that the prevailing ill-feeling towards banking sector has spilled over to financial services professionals themselves, with a new study revealing that 69 per cent of financial services professionals have little or no trust in the UK banking industry. More shockingly still, the poll - carried out by the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment – found that 25 per cent had “zero confidence in banks”. Only 2 per cent said that the banking sector is totally trustworthy.
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UK Private Bank Adds To Board
June 19, 2012
Duncan Lawrie, the UK-based private bank, has further bolstered its board with the addition of Jane Parry - its first female member. Parry has been with the bank for a year and is currently director, head of marketing and new business development, a role in which she oversees marketing and business development strategy, brand positioning and priority marketing channels. In her former career Parry was marketing director for the premier banking division at Barclays and also spearheaded the marketing of offshore investment solutions at Skandia International, part of the wealth m.
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Advisors Line Up To Take New UK Tax Planning Qualification
June 15, 2012
The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners has launched a new UK tax planning qualification in response to the increasing complexity of advising international high net worth individuals and families. The technical content for the STEP Advanced Certificate in UK Tax for International Clients was supplied by Boodle Hatfield, the UK-based private client law firm. The content was written by Boodle Hatfield solicitor Jenny Wilson-Smith, with assistance from associates Eleanor Sepanski and Emma Haley, and editorial input by Julie Hutchison of Standard Life.
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Duncan Lawrie Private Bank Bolsters Board With Industry Veteran
June 12, 2012
UK-based Duncan Lawrie Private Bank has added Richard Wastcoat to its board as non-executive director with immediate effect. Wastcoat has worked in the UK fund management industry for nearly three decades. He was at Fidelity for 25 years and rose to the position of chief executive of the firm’s UK mutual fund business.
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