Training & Educational Resources

Training is an important aspect of the financial services industry. UK rules require that individuals entrusted with responsibility for managing investments and for selling and administering investment products be competent and qualified. Regulators also recognise that it is a good idea for consumers of financial products to be educated as to the risks and rewards involved in investment. Here are some links to various training and educational resources


Practitioner Education
Industry Institutes Financial Services Skills Council
CFA Institute
The Futures and Options Association
The Securities Institute
Business Trainers Absolutely Training
BPP
The Competence Connection
Easy i
Euromoney Legal Training
InMarkets Training
Intuition
MLRO Net
Outlook
FTC Kaplan
Wallace CitiTraining
Conferences City & Financial
Euroforum
Informa
IIR
Infoline
IQPC
Marcus Evans

Consumer Education
UK FSA Consumer Site
Consumer Gateway
Financial Services Consumer Panel
National Association of Bank Customers
USA SEC - Investor Education
SEC - How to avoid investment scams
ICI Investor Awareness site
Alliance for Investor Education
Investor Protection Trust
National Endowment for Financial Education
American Savings Education Council
Bankrate
Other Canada - CSI Investor Learning Centre

Business Schools and Studies
Universities -
UK and Ireland		 Henley Management College
London Business School
City University (London)
London Metropolitan University
ICMA Centre - Reading University
Dublin City University Business School
Universities -
USA		 Harvard Business School
MIT Sloan School of Management
UIUC College of Business
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Yale School of Management
Think-tanks Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation
Centre for European Policy Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
CREATE Research
Group of Thirty
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The Institute of International Finance, Inc
OXERA