Advisers to gain Chartered Financial Planner status

This landmark decision will give financial advisers the right to apply for chartered status and call themselves a Chartered Financial Planner if they have qualifications which sit between the CII’s existing Fellowship and Associateship qualifications. More specifically, those who currently hold CII Fellowship or have completed eight or more Advanced Financial Planning Certificate (AFPC) modules will be invited in November by the Personal Finance Society to apply for the title of chartered financial planner and the first graduation ceremony will confer the title in February 2006. That re...