The AF7 preparation day aims to increase your chances of passing the exam.

Overall objective: To significantly improve delegates’ chances of passing the exam by revising the key technical points that are likely to be tested.

By the end of the event you will able to:

  • understand the background to pension transfers both from money purchase and final salary arrangements

  • describe a DB scheme’s main features including the benefits paid at normal, early and late retirement, ill health pension and on death

  • describe the member options with an uncrystallised money purchase fund

  • understand the options available to someone who has left a DB scheme’s sponsoring employment

  • understand how a Cash Equivalent Transfer Value (CETV), is calculated, the assumptions behind the calculation and how changes in these will affect the CETV

  • understand the main principles in advising clients considering transferring their DB rights to flexible benefits

  • understand the factors that must be taken into account to ensure that advice is appropriate

  • Understand the factors in ensuring that income in drawdown will be sustainable

  • know the FCA’s current thinking on DB transfers and the compliance issues in giving advice on DB transfers

Excluding 20% tax