The Chartered Insurance Institute has launched a new course to aid advisers with what it believes is the ‘biggest' change facing pensions legislation - compressing eight pension rules into a single ‘universal' tax regime.
Entitled ‘Pensions Simplification Update Programme’ the course provides advisers with understanding on the incoming pensions simplification regime after 5 April 2006. According to the CII, the course has been designed with both advisers and pensions administrators in mind and is appropriate for the 125,000 individuals who have completed FP2 aswell as for holders of financial planning qualifications from other UK awarding bodies. It includes a combined study guide, updates for 12 months and exam package, with the first exam, structured in multiple-choice format, to be held in April. The ...
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