Julie Hepworth, group regulatory manager at Perspective Financial Group, offers tips on how to complete your ‘gap-fill' obligations.
The notion of qualification and ‘gap filling' in particular has been a thorny and uncertain issue over the last six months. To say that the waters were muddy would be something of an understatement, and while there may still be concern at an individual adviser level, about what gaps exist and what they should be filled with, there is now a far greater degree of clarity from the regulator. This does not mean everything is plain sailing by any means. Indeed, there are some moral issues which will not go away, for example, the harsh reality that holders of a Level-3 qualification could meet...
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