Qualifications: How high should you go?

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Three practitioners with contrasting views talk to Maria Merricks about why they have decided on their chosen route.

Paolo Standerwick, director of MLP, has been in the industry for more than 30 years. He is anti-RDR and, for the time being, refuses to work towards the level 4 qualifications The other two advisers in our firm will be taking their exams but I don’t want to. That’s not to say I might not change my mind in the future, but I don’t like being cornered. First of all, I am already qualified: I’ve got an FPC, a G60 and my mortgage exam. I have also done various training courses over the past 30 years and we have CPD ongoing. Imagine you were to tell all the car drivers they couldn’t drive a...

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