As a Chartered Associate of the London Institute of Banking and Finance, Mark has achieved the profession’s gold standard for financial advice. The accreditation confirms that he is highly qualified, experienced and committed to the highest professional and ethical standards.

Diploma for Financial Advisers

DipFA is the minimum level qualification you need to become a financial adviser, as laid down by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Financial advisers provide regulated financial advice to help people make the most of their existing wealth. This can include planning for retirement, advising on investments, helping people to make tax efficient savings, and more.

Taxation, Trusts and Tax Compliance

This module teaches individuals how to develop a taxation and trusts strategy within an ethical framework, and how to advise UK clients on taxation and the administration of trusts.

Later Life Planning and Advice

This teaches individuals how to provide advice and planning for long-term care. The course covers the UK's long-term care system, financial assistance, and legal and tax issues.

Managing Investments

This module teaches individuals the principles and theories associated with measuring investment performance. It covers managing investment portfolios to achieve client objectives.

Pension Transfers

This single module qualification attains the required knowledge and practical skills to excel when guiding clients.

Advanced Financial Advice

The unit introduces knowledge and understanding of financial institutions to enable you to identify the different types of service that they provide. It explains the functions and importance of the main components of the monetary and financial system, enabling you to recognise and appreciate the influences on the financial institutions and markets including financial intermediation and disintermediation. It introduces the concept and nature of risk and factors to the advice process for financial advice and enables you to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the FCA’s approach to ethical and unethical behaviours and develop understanding of the Code of Ethics.

Financial Services, Regulation and Ethics

This qualification delivers a comprehensive introduction to the UK financial services and focuses on the environment, key components and interrelationships of the financial system, and legal concepts relevant to retail financial advice. It appears in the apprenticeship standards for the Financial Services Administrator and the Compliance / Risk Officer.