The training blog: taking CF2 interactive

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This week sees the start of a scary new private project revealed to all in a very public manner - I'm going to attempt yet again to answer IFA complaints about journalists and their lack of financial qualifications.

While IFAonline’s journalists have in the past taken – and sadly failed - the industry standard exams in secret, I have now decided to share the woes and trials of sitting one of the exams required to become an IFA. This July, I - Julie Henderson, editor of IFAonline - will take the CF2 exam after studying the CII CF2 online ‘e-book’ of revision and using the CII Ed:Learn online revision tools and hopefully pass first time. Not only am I going to revise for and take the exam in July by working strictly with online tools, but keeping a web blog will also allow me to compare the new inv...

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