AF7 - Pension Transfers - 20 March 2019

This one-day course aims to significantly improve delegates' chances of passing their exam by revising the key technical points that are likely to be tested.

The session takes place at K2 Leisure Centre, Crawley and opens for registration at 9.00am for a 9.30am start and ends at 4.45pm, providing a full six hours' CPD.

Led by John Trayner, a CII Approved Trainer, this one day training course costs £75 for members (non-members £95). It will cover all the aspects of pension transfers for those taking AF7 as a stand alone subject.

As we are repeating this one-day course on 27 March and the content will be identical, please click here if you wish to book for 27 March instead.

The course includes all tuition, tea/coffee on arrival and during formal breaks and a buffet lunch. If you would like to join us for this event, please click on the Book Now button below. (Please note, to benefit from the discounted rate, you will be required to provide your membership number at the time of booking.)

Course Objectives

By the end of the day delegates will able to:

• understand the background to pension transfers both from money purchase and final salary arrangements

• describe a DB scheme’s main features including the benefits paid at normal, early and late retirement, ill health pension and on death

• describe the member options with an uncrystallised money purchase fund

• understand the options available to someone who has left a DB scheme’s sponsoring employment

• understand how a Cash Equivalent Transfer Value (CETV), is calculated, the assumptions behind the calculation and how changes in these will affect the CETV

• understand the main principles in advising clients considering transferring their DB rights to flexible benefits

• understand the factors that must be taken into account to ensure that advice is appropriate

• understand the factors in ensuring that income in drawdown will be sustainable

• know the FCA’s current thinking on DB transfers and the compliance issues in giving advice on DB transfers

Other Information
There is ample free on-site parking at the venue.

Please note that this event will take place on the 1st floor at K2. A lift will normally be available for delegates to access the training, but stairs will need to be used in the event of an emergency evacuation of the building.

Full joining instructions will be sent to delegates ahead of the event.

About our speaker
John has 40 years’ experience in insurance and financial services. Not surprisingly most of his former employers no longer exist because of mergers and takeovers. For example he joined Leeds Permanent Building Society in 1986 and at retirement was working for Lloyds Banking Group even though he’d never changed employers! The last 15 years were spent in the training department specialising in professional exams.

Not wishing to spend retirement watching daytime TV he decided to become a freelance trainer specialising in helping people to pass the CII’s Financial Services exams.

John is a Chartered Insurance Practitioner and a Fellow of both the Chartered Insurance Institute and the Personal Finance Society.