DipFA® Training

Testimonial - Angela Melanophy

Hi Mark

I would just like to say how much the recent course with John has helped me with my assignment.

Before attending I was totally flummoxed, however by the end of the first day John very kindly showed me the way!

The course was excellent and John is one of the best trainers I have come across in my many years within the industry.

He is a credit to your organisation.

I look forward to the next course in September.

Kind regards

Angela Melanophy
20 Park Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 1DR
Tel: 01795 438694

Diploma for Financial Advisers (DipFA®)

Obtaining this qualification along with undertaking the appropriate CPD will make you RDR compliant and assure you of a future in the financial services sector. Our course is now so robust we would recommend that you do not take CeFA and utilise this as your route to financial advisor instead.

After many changes to the structure of this qualification we have a complete and well researched and delivered qualification.

By selecting New leaf as your training provider you will immediately qualify for a £100.00 discount on the IFS School of Finance academic fee for DipFA®.

There are now 2 sections to the DipFA® qualification:

The first part to complete is:

FSRE - Financial Services Regulation and ethics

From October 2010 - registrations will be accepted on a monthly basis

The IFS School of Finance will send you out a large manual - the syllabus is extremely comprehensive.

It covers all subjects from regulation through to legal principles through to products and services. There is a large section attributed to risk. The new section added most recently is ethics and this alone is attributed 20% of the total marks.

FSRE has been de-linked from the full DipFA qualification and as such can be studied and taken at anytime during your annual registration.

We recommend that you pre-read the book then attend our 5 day course.

This course is superb for experienced and brand new to the industry advisors. We will lecture you on the entire syllabus. This training will remind you of all the key principles relating to our business and also help you remember and understand the fundamentals of pensions, investments, long term care, taxation, business issues/tax, personal taxation etc. Therefore speed read the book before you come. Take notes on our course and sit your FSRE exam in a Pearsons prometric test centre close to home. We suggest that you take no longer than 3 months over this entire process.

The second part to complete is called:

AFA Advanced Financial Advice

This consists of course work and an examination.

The course work

By month 6 you will be expected to produce a concise and professional piece of course work which is normally in the form of a report. You will need to write around 1500-3000 words. The subjects vary from month to month. In fact your course work scenario will be issued to you on the day you register with the IFS School of Finance. In essence you have 6 months to prepare for it. Our 3 day intensive course will focus on the key areas of the course work and enable you prepare your coursework and understand the key academic and practical implications. More importantly you will leave our course having written most of your course work. You will simply need to tidy it up at home. Whilst no ethical training company can tell you what to write in order to pass - we will teach and coach you through the process in line with the IFS School of Finance code of ethics for trainers.

New Leaf have a 99% success rate with all students who have gone through their coursework with us.

The Examination

By month 9 you will be expected to be in a position to sit a 3 hour examination. This can be written or you can now choose a computer if you feel more comfortable with this.

The examination is based upon a pre-issued fact find. You are expected to write an appropriate suitability letter or reasons for recommendation letter in line with your particular and unique fact find. The fact find is unique to your month of entry and as such is unique to that entry group.

The fact find is issued to you 6 weeks prior to your final examination date. We will again prepare you for this exam by way of a further 3 day intensive course. You will be ready for the exam as we will explore and train you on all key areas that are evidently central to the fact find. Whilst you can go along way to preparing your final exam report you will need to be mindful that some subtle changes will be made in the final exam and the fact find information will vary enough for the advise/recommendation to change in a small way. We will even prepare for this eventuality.

Again we have trained many 100's of students and still have achieved a 99% pass rate.

Outcomes

The bottom line is - we will help you understand the material to enable you to pass. The course and attendance with New Leaf demands 5 classroom days for FSRE. 3 classroom days for coursework prep. 3 classroom days for exam prep. This is 11 days over 9 months to obtain a level 4 qualification that will change your life and help you to follow the career of your dreams or if you are in the industry or have been for several years will enable you to stay in the industry.

Give my team a call or e-mail and we will discuss the process and get you registered.
By training with us - you will achieve a £100.00 discount on your IFS registration.

To train with us you will need to become a Level 4 annual member. This will give you 12 months access to our training.

Words from Mark Hobbs Managing Director

I can speak from strength - I went through our training and passed the full DipFA recently. I am not an IFA I am the principal of New Leaf. If I can do it any one can do it! John Band my Head of Training is an inspirational trainer and without his support I would have seriously struggled. His knowledge and confidence helped me through. I believe this is the case for many who have gone before me.

CeFA first for in-experienced advisors?

We believe that you should go straight into DipFA - with our structured training and mentoring you will not need to go through CeFA first. Contact the office to go through these issues with our experienced and caring team.

Costs

Our Level 4 annual membership (Financial Services Club of Great Britain (FSCGB) is only £595 + vat
This commences from the day you attend your first course and expires one year later. This affords our students plenty of time to make it through within their year of training. Annual membership allows the individual many other training opportunities - just look at our FSCGB page

Call and ask for Tina or Sarah on 01702 431130 or submit a contact form