IFW launches financial wellbeing certificate for advisers

11 week programme

Sophie King
clock • 1 min read

The Initiative for Financial Wellbeing (IFW) has launched an educational wellbeing certificate to train advisers to help their clients become happier, not just wealthier.

The 11-week course is made up of six modules and online and offline work and will be delivered by Quiver Management, but IFW founder Chris Budd will lead the first module along with Bowen-Neilson. The programme is expected to provide a total of 18 hours study and will help advisers with a range of issues, including what makes people happy, the blockages that prevent people from making food financial wellbeing decisions and how to embed financial wellbeing throughout the financial advisory practice. The course will be delivered in cohorts of 12 people with the first programme, which is...

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