Openwork rolls out scheme to take advisers to Chartered

Carmen Reichman
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Zurich-backed network Openwork has launched a training programme to help its advisers attain QCF Level 6 qualifications and the Chartered Financial Planner designation.

The restricted advice business will offer advisers a structured programme to take them to Chartered Financial Planner status, which sits two grades above the regulatory minimum requirement for advisers of Level 4. The programme is designed to dovetail with Openwork's graduate training academy for new entrants, which launched last year. Openwork principals, advisers and paraplanners will be given face-to-face tuition in the form of 'AF' (advanced) study modules initially to be delivered at the firm's headquarters in Swindon. Openwork will seek to roll out further courses at a number...

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