Advisers are responsible for own training

Some advisers now fear they are living in a training vacuum as, under the old PIA, the adviser and his/her firm knew exactly where they stood. Training requirements were clearly laid out and it was relatively easy to develop a training programme based on the PIA's training and competence guides. However, now we live in the grown-up world of the FSA, there are no prescriptive rules or regulations. Even the need to complete 50 hours of continuing professional development (CPD) has been removed, so what should the poor adviser (or his/her training manager) do? Well, of course, the abov...