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Training solutions from Strategi Institute

If you are in the financial services industry, or want to be, then Strategi Institute can provide you with the training you need. Whether you are a new entrant to the industry, in a support role such as a PA or paraplanner, or an experienced adviser, Strategi Institute offers training that will enhance your competence and help take you to the next level professionally.

Our courses are structured in such a way that advisers learn not only what they need to learn for the Certificate, but also about ethics, best practice and compliance processes, and ways to increase revenue within their business.

For larger organisations, Strategi Institute can tailor its training programs according to the organisation’s volumes of people, timeframes for delivery, and personal capability to deliver.

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NZ Certificate Level 5

The benchmark qualification for authorisation as a financial adviser. Training in compulsory unit standards and relevant elective strands.

NZ Certificate in Financial Services Level 5

Continuing professional development

Training options to meet the CPD requirements for advisers and a way to upskill for RFAs and QFEs.

Continuing professional development

Advancing your career

Thinking about a career in financial services - or wanting to advance? Get the career advice and the training you need.

Your career in the financial services industry

Online learning with Radar

The new world-class CPD command centre for advisers, QFEs and networks.

Radar: the CPD command centre

Corporate education solutions

Get your network, advisers and support staff up to speed.

Corporate education programmes – a total education solution

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Finology and finding the higher purpose

Aim: To explain the author’s views on our relationship with money and what the future of financial planning looks like. Outcome: Completion of this module will enable financial advisers (audience) to: Understand the origin of the concept of ‘finology’; Identify the interior and exterior aspects of clients’ relationships with money; and Understand how... Read more

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10 Ways My Closing Ratio Topped 90%: How our sales process went from dismal to dynamic

Aim: To outline steps advisers can take to increase the conversion rate of prospects to clients. Outcome: Completion of this module will enable financial advisers to: Understand how one has significantly improved their sales outcomes Apply that knowledge to identify what might work in their own business to increase client onboarding and retention rates Abstract... Read more

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2015 Annual Report of the Financial Markets Authority

Aim: To present the Annual Report of the Financial Markets Authority for the year ended 30 June 2015. Outcome: Completion of this module will enable financial advisers and market participants to understand how the FMA has performed when the results of its activities for the year ended 30 June 2015 are compared with its strategic priority targets, and the results of the... Read more

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4 Gen Y Trends That Affect Your Practice

Aim: To look at how advisers can attract Gen Y clients. Outcome: Completion of this module will enable financial advisers to understand how they can tailor their advice practice to be more appealing to Gen Y clients. Abstract: Millennials are reaching the age where acquiring financial advice is becoming a necessity. As a group, their familiarity with... Read more

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4 Reasons the demand for advice is booming

Aim: Describe the factors contributing to an increase in the demand from clients for advice. Outcome: Completion of this module will enable financial advisers (audience) to: Identify the trends contributing to new opportunities for financial advisers; and Understand the factors causing clients to seek more advice and take steps to seize this opportunity.... Read more

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4 Ways for Advisers to Better Engage Clients

Aims: The aim of this article is to introduce the Engagement Roadmap model and explain how it is used to better engage clients and leverage that engagement Outcomes: By reading this article, you will be able to: Describe the Engagement Roadmap model State the four drivers of client engagement Identify how to obtain greater client engagement from... Read more

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7 Steps to Facilitate Exquisite Listening

Aim: To explain how readers can improve their listening skills thereby improving communication with clients and client retention rates. Outcome: At the end of this module the reader will: Understand the concept of ‘exquisite’ listening and the Flow Process model to facilitate exquisite listening; and Apply the described steps in that model when... Read more

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9 Systems Every Adviser Needs in Their Business to Succeed

Aim: To outline nine business systems advisers must get right in order to succeed. Outcome: Completion of this module will enable advisers to clarify their thinking and check their own workflow systems against the nine key areas described. Abstract: When advisers get stuck, it’s time to step back from the day-to-day struggles and clarify the processes that organise their... Read more

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A 7-step plan to transform your practice

Aim: To explain seven steps an adviser can take now to prepare their business to service the next generation of clients (Millennials) Outcome: Completion of this module may help advisers to understand: Some of the challenges that lie ahead as increasing numbers of baby boomer clients pass away. Steps that can be taken to make their business Millennial-ready... Read more

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A Beginners Guide to Exotic Options

Aim: To summarise the key features of some of the major over-the-counter exotics. Outcome: Completion of this module will enable financial advisers to understand the different options for managing risk exposure. Abstract: Exotics allow businesses to manage risk exposure at an efficient price. With the use of electronic trading platforms, the... Read more

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A brief outline of common HR issues

Aim: To outline basic issues a small business should consider when employing and managing people at work Outcome: Completion of this module will help those who employ and manage people, to: Develop a sound recruitment process; Determine what kind of employment agreement to use and when; Comply with legal requirements for health and safety at work Implement... Read more

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A Critique of Grantham and Gordon: The Prospects For Long-term Growth

Aim: To present the pessimistic prediction by economist Robert Gordon and investment strategist Jeremy Grantham about the end of the vigorous global economic growth of the last two centuries, critique that prediction and provide an optimistic forecast for global GDP. Outcome: Completion of this module will enable financial advisers to: Compare the arguments of... Read more

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A Descriptive Analysis of Physiological Stress and Readiness to Change

Aim: To present results from a study investigating the role of physiological stress in the financial planning process, and the relationship (if any) between physiological stress and financial goal achievement. Outcome: At the end of this module advisers will understand How to identify physiological stress in clients The effect of stress on the immediate-term... Read more

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A Framework for Understanding Bond Portfolio Performance

Aim: The author seeks to provide a framework for analysing and, predicting the returns on actively managed portfolios of bonds – a task different from analysing the bond market itself. This article is suitable for AFAs who analyse and select bonds for inclusion in their clients’ portfolios. Outcome: Advisers completing this module will: Understand how the concepts of alpha and... Read more

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A guide to the FMA's view of conduct

Aim: To outline for financial service providers how conduct is the FMA’s ‘lens’, through which it examines what providers do, how they do it, and how that translates to what providers’ customers experience. Outcome: Completion of this module will help financial service providers and financial advisers to: Understand the FMA’s view of what constitutes good conduct Assess... Read more

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A Look Back at the Performance of the Holy Grail

Aim: To introduce the “Holy Grail” market timing model as a tool to demonstrate how one can beat the market by following price trends and achieve long-term financial gains. Outcome: Completion of this module will enable investment advisers to: Explain the “Holy Grail” market timing model as a theory of investment; and Identify factors that underlie the... Read more

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A Matter of Time: Why Some People Plan for Retirement and Others Do Not

Aim: To examine the relationship between time perspective (TP) and retirement planning, and the role of TP in promoting retirement adjustment. Outcome: Completion of this module will enable financial advisers to understand how to: Identify a client’s time perspective. How the client’s TP is likely to influence their retirement planning and adjustment to... Read more

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A Primer on Geopolitics and Investing

Aim: To provide advisers with insights into how current and future geopolitical risk might affect investment opportunities and returns. Outcome: Completion of this module will enable financial advisers (audience) to understand: What geopolitical risk is and how geopolitical risks and tensions might impact on clients’ investment returns; Use that knowledge when... Read more

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A Three Box Approach to Building Debt Portfolios

Aim: To describe a three box approach for building debt portfolios. Outcome: Completion of this module will enable financial advisers to apply the three box approach system when building debt portfolios for clients. Abstract: With interest rates at record lows, it is a really good time to revisit how we build debt portfolios. The old days of simply... Read more