Feeling the benefit: Making sure CPD is on your side

CPD a long-term benefit of RDR

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Are you making the most of CPD? Tom Hegarty explains why continuing professional development should be much more than just a box-ticking exercise

When it comes to the strategy of long-term change, sometimes the success of an operation isn't immediately apparent. One of the objectives of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), when it was implemented at the back end of 2012, was to improve consumer perception of the financial advice market. It wasn't exactly a painless transition to the post RDR-world but, three years on, did the review deliver what the regulator intended? Although the final report of the recent Financial Advice Market Review (FAMR) delivered a lot more ‘talking the talk' than ‘walking the walk' in actuality, o...

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