Caroline Stuart: How paraplanners can keep up with CPD and stay connected

'Unprecedented times'

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During these 'unprecedented times' it is important to keep up to date and, better yet, keep in touch with each other, writes Caroline Stuart. Here, she explains how paraplanners can stay connected and make up for the lack of industry events...

I keep hearing we are in "unprecedented times"; in fact, the number of times I keep seeing the word ‘unprecedented', is itself unprecedented. We are all quite rightly, and very sensibly, following government advice: working from home where we can and keeping our distance. But, for some people, this is going to be a big struggle. It's not just working from home that people are having to adjust to. All of our professional events have - again, very sensibly - been cancelled or postponed, including this year's round of Personal Finance Society Purely Paraplanning conferences. Being a member ...

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