Be RDR Ready: Some last minute exam and gap-fill tips

Yet to complete your Level 4 or gap-fill requirements? There's still time, finds Charlotte Richards...

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Yet to complete your Level 4 or gap-fill requirements? There's still time, finds Charlotte Richards...

There may be 49 weeks left until RDR implementation, but the Institute of Financial Services (IFS) warned in December that the ‘real’ deadline was imminent. Anne Kiem, chief executive of the IFS, said the reality for most financial advisers who wanted to continue working in the post-RDR era was that they must have begun the necessary steps by 3 January 2012. Now that 'deadline' has passed, what does the IFS say now? Well, it says it is still able to help advisers who have missed this deadline. The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) agrees. Here, advisers give their tips to thos...

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