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Personal Finance Society (PFS) chief executive Fay Goddard is to retire next year after five years in the job.

The seemingly "endless" list of industry qualifications such as the ISO22222 and the BS8577 are becoming a "cash cow" and are "unnecessary", says one adviser.

Unemployed graduates will be helped to break into the financial services industry with the launch of a training college.

Schroders' Retail Distribution Review (RDR) gap-fill training programme has been awarded Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) CPD accreditation.

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has added a new category to its Chartered Awards 2012 - Paraplanner of the Year.

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has urged providers to 'step up to the mark' and buy into the increased professionalism of the financial services industry heralded by the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

A new standard in financial planning will help bring together a fragmented industry - including restricted and bank advice - its creators have claimed.

About half of small businesses will turn to financial advisers to make sure they are compliant with auto-enrolment employer duties ahead of their staging date, a study of 500 firms has found.

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Tenet has attained Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) approval for its adviser development programme, meaning the scheme will now be eligible for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points.