If you are looking for independent financial advice, you should always work with a suitably qualified professional.
The pinnacle of professional standards for financial advice are the Chartered Financial Planner and Certified Financial Planner (CFP) qualifications.
With the news today that the 4,000th individual in the UK has qualified as a Chartered Financial Planner, consumers should always look for this as a minimum standard when engaging with an adviser.
There really is no substitute.
Only a Chartered Financial Planner can offer the gold standard of financial advice; it is a demanding technical qualification combined with experience and ethical behaviour requirements.
In this increasingly complex world of retail financial services, we believe that advisers should be qualified to this highest standard to demonstrate their competence.
Here at Informed Choice, five of our six Financial Planners are qualified to Chartered Financial Planner standard.
Three of our six Financial Planners hold the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) professional qualification, which means that all six of those delivering advice here at Informed Choice are qualified to the very highest standards.
In addition, we became the 99th firm of Chartered Financial Planners in the UK back in 2007 and have been proud to hold corporate Chartered status continually since then.
To find out what a properly qualified financial adviser can offer that those only qualified to the minimum standard cannot, do get in touch.
