As a career, financial planning enables those people with entrepreneurial skills to eventually set up their own businesses. We advise school leavers to get their Bachelors degree, spend some time in a large corporate financial services company to gain the experience needed to advance their careers and to continue as life-long learners.
In fact more than ever before, given the complexities, uncertainties and confusion the consumer faces on a daily basis, financial planning professionals will be called upon to help them achieve their life goals through the principles and practice of sound professional financial planning. The financial plan compiled by the professional financial planner is what differentiates professional financial planners from the myriad of other advisers in the sector. Once qualified, a wide range of career opportunties exist, not only as a professional financial planners but as managers, specialists within the life insurance, banking, asset management and investment industries as well as other providers of financial planning products in the financial services sector.
Click here to download information about a career in financial planning and here to download the FPI learning pathway.
To learn more about the financial planning industry, watch the first in the four part CNBC Africa series exploring the financial planning profession. Joining ABN in the studio to explore the profession that is Financial Planning was Gerhardt Meyer, Chairperson of the Financial Planning Institute and Prem Govender, Director on the Board of the Financial Planning Standards Board.
Testimonials
The international body, FPSB, recorded CFP® professionals to give you some insight into the profession of financial planning. Click on the links below to listen to some of these "Faces of Financial Planning".