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TDQ: TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE – ANSWERS
29 July 2020
...things, revise for your qualifications. Below you will find also the cross-references for the 10 questions in this month’s TDQ: Test Your Knowledge, provided by Brand...
TDQ: Allowances for Income Tax
27 July 2020
In this Training, Development and Qualifications article, the Brand Financial Training team look at how the personal allowance, the personal savings allowance, the dividend allowance, and...
2 July 2020
...for your qualifications. Below you will find also the cross-references for the 10 questions in this month’s TDQ: Test Your Knowledge, which we posed yesterday, provided by
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS
For Professional Paraplanner’s TDQ (Training, Development and Qualifications) series, we have teamed up with key support providers, such as Brand Financial Training, to provide our readers...
Exam refresher: Using a SIPP to Buy Property
25 June 2020
...topic tested in the CII AF2 business financial planning exam. This post was originally published on the Brand Financial Training Blog at https://brandft.co.uk/using-a-sipp-to-buy-property/ and has been...
Exam refresher: Money-weighted & time-weighted rate of return
23 June 2020
Catriona Standingford, MD of Brand Financial Training, considers how to calculate money-weighted rate of return and time-weighted rate of return when evaluating performance of an investment...
Preparing for R06
9 June 2020
The 2019 pass rate for RO6 dropped by 10%. Catriona Standingford, MD of Brand Financial Training, looks at the October 2019 exam, what may have affected...
28 May 2020