Monthly Roundup for January 2018

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.

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 Many candidates aren’t aware of this, which can result in candidates studying out-of-date information.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 latest CII AF4 exam paper looked as if it was as challenging as ever, so a successful candidate would have studied the relevant CII manuals and case study workbook, and they would have been fully up to speed with current economic thinking. The following review of the October 2017 exam paper will be useful reading for those preparing to sit the CII AF4 exam.

It’s the turn of the (almost extinct) CII AF3 Pension Planning module and the scrutiny of the October 2017 exam paper. You’ll find this to be useful reading if you’re preparing for the next – and last – exam sitting for AF3.

It’s the turn of AF2 the Business Financial Planning module and the scrutiny of the October 2017 exam paper. This is useful reading for those studying for their CII AF2 exam.

Are you organised and methodical in your revision? Do you know what topics you’ve already learnt and what topics you need to focus on next? Are you keeping a record of what you need to test yourself on, and when, so that you retain the information you’ve learnt?

Next in line for our past paper analysis is J02, the exam which covers trusts – useful for those preparing to sit CII J02.

As the CII have now released their exam papers from October 2017, it’s time for us to start scrutinising them – this week we start with AF1 Personal Tax and Trust Planning. This will be invaluable reading as you prepare for your CII AF1 exam.

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 26 January

Friday 19 January

Friday 12 January

Friday 5 January