CII backs new financial planning degree

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The Chartered Insurance Institute has joined forces with educational charity Life Academy to promote a new University of Surrey course aimed at advisers.

Delivered by Life Academy - the new Mid-Life, Pre-Retirement and Life Planning program is run in three stages; post graduate certificate, post graduate diploma and masters. The MSc course, the first such program to be offered in the UK, provides a natural progression for Chartered Financial Planners – the CII says. The certificate and diploma stages each require completion of four modules with a dissertation in order to complete the MSc. CII deputy director general Bob Bullivant says the institute is excited to be involved in an “innovative degree”. “The course is ideal for busy people ...

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