IFP hopes to issue first 'SPSs' in 12 months

Scott Sinclair
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The Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) has confirmed it will apply to become an accredited body under the FSA's new professionalism regime, and hopes to start confirming advisers' status in early 2012.

Chief executive Nick Cann says the IFP will use next January's round of CFP renewals to inform members where they stand on the road to meeting the RDR's qualification and gap-fill rules. Planners who have met the requirements will be issued with a 'virtual' Statement of Professional Standing (SPS), Cann says. "We hope this will give a number of members peace of mind before the beginning of 2013," Cann says. All practicing advisers will be required to hold a Statement of Professional Standing (SPS), the regulator confirmed yesterday in its Policy Statement on professionalism. The...

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