Transatlantic consolidator launches adviser training scheme

Two-year programme

Tom Ellis
clock • 1 min read

Financial advice firm consolidator Kingswood has launched its own adviser training scheme targeting second careerists.

Kingswood Academy has already kicked off its first two-year programme and will see four trainee advisers from around the UK take the course with a Diploma in Financial Planning in sight. They are two ex-service personnel, an entrepreneur and a former motoring sector professional. The trainees will have a 13-week rotation shadowing a wealth planner, external and internal training sessions, as well as additional set projects. Kingswood head of wealth management Leigh Philpot said: "We are a young forward-looking company committed to the development of our people and having a positive im...

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