Monthly Roundup for August 2017

Here's your Monthly Roundup of Brand Financial Training's Blog posts.

We share this with you each month, because we understand you're busy people and we want to ensure you don't miss out on any useful information that will help you with your CII exams. This Monthly Roundup allows you to see, at a glance, what articles have been posted and you can simply click on any that are of interest to you.

Best Wishes,

Catriona and the Team
Brand Financial Training

Are you aware that the CII update their study texts throughout the examinable year to either incorporate new legislations, correct errors or clarify information? Many candidates aren’t aware of this, which can result in candidates studying out-of-date information. To make this easier for you, we have collated the most recent CII study text updates. As some of them affect Brand Financial Training’s learning resources, we have also updated the relevant parts of our resources, which are noted below. Note that we always keep our resources up-to-date.

The CII have released the exam paper from their July 2017 R06 exam, so it’s time to see how we did in our pre-exam analysis – of interest to CII R06 candidates.

In this article, we look at the main differences between Enterprise Investment Schemes and Venture Capital Trusts – useful for your CII AF1, AF4, AF5, R02 or R06 exam revision.

Everyone should have a will, yet only 1 out of 3 of us actually gets round to it. And a fair number of those are picking up a pack from a local stationery shop and doing it themselves. This may be okay if you have fairly simple arrangements, but for those of us who have children from previous marriages, or are unmarried with children, then the best way must be the professional way! This article discusses the important factors to consider when making arrangements for what happens when you die.

With all good intentions, students will make a heroic effort to revise for their exams, but no matter how hard they work to get information into their heads, they find that over the subsequent few days and weeks most of it’s gone! This article gives readers 10 tips for counteracting our natural tendency to forget.

The residence nil rate band (RNRB) came into effect in April and will be tested in less than a month, so here we look at how it works. This will be of interest to readers who are revising for their CII AF1, AF5, CF1, R01, R03 or R06 exam.

Next in line for our past paper analysis is the CII J07, Supervision in a regulated environment exam. This review of the question paper from April will help you to highlight areas that will need more focussed revision.

This is a bit of Friday Fun where we provide you with 5 questions (and answers) relevant to a mix of CII exams. The challenge is for you to answer them in 5 minutes. We post them on the blog every Friday.

To try your 'hand' at answering the questions, visit our blog at one (or all) of the links below:

Friday 25 August

Friday 18 August

Friday 11 August

Friday 4 August