It’s too easy for PIMFA Member Firms to assume that their current suitability checks and approaches to assessing a client’s investment preferences will stand up to regulatory scrutiny through the lens of Consumer Duty. In a matter of months, the FCA requires you to be able to evidence that your firm is putting themselves ‘in the shoes of your customers’, acting in good faith, avoiding causing foreseeable harm and enabling customers to achieve their financial objectives. Consumer Duty requires role relevant training, rather than a tick box approach to learning. To that end, this one day in house training course, personalised to your specific needs, takes your advisors through step by step through a framework they can adopt to improve their approach to client suitability, the critical component in your firm’s ability to meet the Duty’s two outcomes on customer support and consumer understanding. But even a proven framework won’t help your firm meet the regulators standards, if the new skills don’t stick. That’s why we give your advisors the confidence, tools and support they need to talk with their clients about their values, motivations and ambitions, moving beyond the current approach to suitability. What We Cover In this live, bespoke interactive, tutor led one day training course, we take you through how you can: Update your current approach to suitability to align with the new Consumer Duty before the 31st July to help to meet two of the outcomes of the regulations – customer support and consumer understanding Deploy ‘ready to use’ approaches your advisors and wealth managers can immediately use to evidence a clearer and higher standard of care to the regulator, while meeting client needs and expectations. Achieve genuine competitive advantage in client experience giving you the tools and support you need to build the capabilities of your client facing teams. Leverage Consumer Duty as a catalyst for commercial growth based on growing a values-based purpose driven wealth management business. Enhance your firms Reputation as a market leader, allowing you to become the best in class for client centric approaches to Consumer Duty. Upskill your workforce to Retain the best talent in the field allowing them to form greater bonds with clients. Post Course Coaching A highlight of this training course is the inclusion of follow up coaching to support the implementation of the key learnings of this training course within your firm. Alongside your coach, you will discuss your action plan for executing your newly learnt approaches, putting in organisation wide measures to help overcome expected or unexpected execution obstacles and creating a long term strategy that will keep you ahead of any further regulatory changes. Who should attend? This course is designed for firms to put in place the essential ingredients support commercial growth and to meeting two of the Consumer Duty outcomes on customer support and consumer understanding and their client facing professional advisors who will lead in delivering a customer centric service. This training is invaluable to: Heads of Sales who, looking to build and maintain a strong sales pipeline, want their team to develop a deeper level of engagement, based on their values with both prospects and existing clients. Training & Competency Supervisors who want to deliver role relevant consumer duty training for their financial advisors, wealth managers or financial planners. Compliance Heads and Senior Management who need to grasp the key role advisors play in achieving Consumer Duty compliance. Trainers John Pepin, CEO, Philanthropy Impact John is Chief Executive of Philanthropy Impact. Its purpose is to increase the flow of capital for good by enabling to HNW and UHNW private clients and their families to match their purpose driven wealth strategies with their values capturing their ESG/impact investment and philanthropic preferences. It achieves this by working with professional private client advisors (wealth management, private banking, independent financial advice, tax and legal sectors) to ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals to grow and enhance the quality of the support they give to their clients. The network also includes individual philanthropists and social investors, trusts and foundations, charities and social enterprises. The organisation acts as a knowledge hub and centre of excellence realising its vision by means of thought leadership and sharing intelligence, events, CPD Certified and CISI Endorsed training, bespoke networking opportunities, government liaison, publications including a magazine, and resources for advisors and other stakeholders. Experienced senior level practioners from the wealth management industry will support John deliver this training course. Register Your Interest Simply fill in the form below and click Submit to register your interest in this course.
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Even though you’ve achieved some success in your career, do you sometimes feel like an imposter? The Imposter Syndrome is now recognised as a commonplace work experience - especially for career women. It has them attributing their success to luck, discounting their capabilities and fearing being ex-posed as a fraud. They constantly strive for better results and are generally high achievers as a result - all-though are very unlikely to recognise this. However, this over-achieving can lead to burn-out from an overly driven need to succeed. Or, fear of failure and being found out as a fraud can stop them from stepping up to opportunities that will help them develop their skills, gain experience and progress their careers. Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook and author of ‘Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead’) says that, to lean in fully, women need to get comfortable with their success. When women fully own and appreciate their value, they can, then, denounce the demands and accusations of their internal ‘imposter gremlin’ and embrace and enjoy success. Webinar structure: During this interactive session, we will investigate the Imposter Syndrome - what it is, how it can impact performance and how to shift the attitudes that underpin it. You will have the opportunity to explore the impact of the Imposter Syndrome both at a personal level and more widely. Coach and trainer, Caroline Holt, will share a simple-to-use and very effective technique for recognising and appreciating your own capabilities and helping others to do the same. You will have the opportunity to practise this during the webinar. Webinar take-aways: • A greater recognition and appreciation of the value that you bring to a project or organisation • Increased motivation to reach for more • A powerful technique in your toolkit for building core confidence and inspiring yourself and others to step up to bigger challenges
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There is no room for complacency for PIMFA member firms regarding financial promotions. The FCA has just announced that it amended or withdrew 1,507 promotions by 54 authorised firms between April – June 2023. Digging through the details of the statement reveals that retail investments and retail lending were the sectors with the highest amend/withdraw outcomes, totalling 70% of interventions with authorised firms. Consumer Duty will only ramp up the regulator’s intervention on rogue financial promotions, especially on social media. In this live online course, you will examine good and bad examples of recent promotional campaigns, assessing potential non-compliance of your current and future campaigns. By improving your grasp of good practice, you will be better prepared to protect your firm, brand reputation, and competitive advantage and respond rapidly to unexpected, consequential events. In this live, two-hour online session with Bovill’s Adam Strickland you’ll: • Assess the potential risks of your marketing and financial promotions against the FCA draft guidance ‘GC23/2: Financial promotions on social media’. • Strengthen your approach to financial promotions in-line with the requirements of Consumer Duty. • Review control expectations for promotions of any high-risk investment in line with the FCA’s PS22/10. • Use a proven processes to assess and mitigate the threat of non-compliance with current and future changes in financial promotion regulations • Ensure your approach to social media and customer communications doesn’t attract the wrong kind of attention. • Enhance the review and approval process for financial promotions in line with proposed new anti-greenwashing rules. • Update your social media and influencer marketing governance, policies, and contracts with ‘finfluencers’ and agencies to ensure your firm doesn’t fall short of the guidance the regulator has in place to stop consumer harm.
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Whether your firm is preparing to acquire or ready to sell, implementing a best practice approach to M&A is very often what separates long-term value creation from value destruction. In this FREE 60-minute webinar discussion, industry advisors Maurice McDonald, Director at Cosegic, alongside Anthony Turner and Andy Peterkin, Partners at the law firm Farrer & Co., specialists in sale and acquisitions, outline the strategic issues PIMFA member firms should know to enable them to realise value from transactions. Key topics for discussion include: 1. How M&A deals are shaking up the industry. 2. What really support a deal’s price. 3. Making a success of M&A deals.
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We would like to invite you to discover more about PIMFA’s ‘Authentic Leadership: How to Thrive as a Female Leader in Wealth and Finance’ programme with this FREE 60 minute, no obligation webinar. In this webinar with executive coach Caroline Holt, you will: • Find out if the programme is appropriate for you or your colleagues • Hear about women graduates who have completed the programme • Get your questions answered about the programme - what you will get from it, how it all works, the admission process and fees • Discover how this programme differs from other Women in Leadership programmes for women


The Chancellor has announced that the 2023 Autumn Statement will occur on Wednesday, 22 November 2023. The Autumn statement updates the government's plans for the economy. This Autumn budget is of particular interest based on a possible general election being called in 2024. Join Iona Martin, Head of Private Banking Tax, KPMG, and David Ostojitsch, Director of Government Relations and Policy, PIMFA, for a comprehensive update on what the Autumn budget statement includes and what it means for you, your firm, clients, and the wealth management and advice industry. Please note this webinar is for PIMFA Members only
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PIMFA Live Online Learning: Financial Promotions: fair, clear and not misleading in 2023

