The “Certified Family Office Advisor” is WMI’s signature programme designed to build capabilities for the existing advisors to Family Offices. Through practice-led discussion, participants learn the key communication strategies to establish family constitution, vision, and charter, and emerge with key competencies in the aspects of wealth succession tools, family governance tools and structures, investment landscape, and the specifics of managing transgenerational family assets.
The programme has been structured into 2 parts.
Completion of the Certificate for Family Advisors – Foundation programme is required prior to taking the Certificate for Family Office Advisors – Advanced programme.
The participant will be offered a complimentary 1-year Membership to the Global-Asia Family Office Circle.
Drawing on real-world case studies, the foundation level facilitates the overall understanding of the types of family offices, their different functions, the legal and fiscal context in which they operate, as well as the means and tools that can help protect wealth for the long term. A significant part of the learning will seek to understand the human context of wealth owners: individuals, entrepreneurs and families.
Total: 20 CPD hours
SILE CPD (for lawyers): 3 hours
Taking participants beyond the Whats and Hows of Family Offices, the advanced level delves deeper by first shedding light on the heart of today’s UHNW families. The programme explores the psychology and motivations of today’s affluent dynasties, uncovering an array of opportunities available, including the fast-emerging area of impact investing — for clients who wish to reflect their values for society and the environment in their wealth decisions.
This is the second part of a two-part course. Completion of the Certificate for Family Advisors – Foundation programme is required prior to taking the Certificate for Family Office Advisors – Advanced programme.
Total: 31.5 CPD hours
SILE CPD (for lawyers): 3 hours
Individuals with more than 3 years of relevant experience and demonstrated applied knowledge in the various functions within the family office segment
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Participants who successfully complete the programme will be awarded:
Accreditation
IBF Accreditation
This programme is accredited by The Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF). Singaporeans and Permanent Residents are eligible for enhanced funding support of up to 70% course fee subsidy under the IBF Standard Training Scheme (IBF-STS).
Information on IBF-STS funding is available at https://www.ibf.org.sg/home/for-individuals/skills-and-jobs-development/training-support/IBF-STS
SILE
Certificate for Family Office Advisors — Foundation
Certificate for Family Office Advisors — Advanced
Participants who wish to obtain CPD Points are reminded that they must comply strictly with the Attendance Policy set out in the CPD Guidelines. For this activity, this includes signing in on arrival and signing out at the conclusion of the activity in the manner required by the organiser, and not being absent from the entire activity for more than 15 minutes. Participants who do not comply with the Attendance Policy on any particular day of the activity will not be able to obtain CPD Points for that day of the activity. Please refer to www.sileCPDcentre.sg for more information.
Certification
Certificate for Family Office Advisors – Foundation
Upon completion, participants will be:
Awarded the WMI Certificates for
Certificate for Family Office Advisors – Advanced
Awarded the WMI Certificates for
About IBF Certification
The following programme addresses the following Technical Skills and Competencies (TSCs) and proficiency level:
Certificate for Family Office Advisors Foundation – Understanding the World of Family Office
Certificate for Family Office Advisors Foundation – Planning for the Future
Certificate for Family Office Advisors – Advanced
Certificate for Family Office Advisors Advanced – Investing and Risk Management for the Family
Certificate in Environment and Social Governance for Family Offices
Participants are encouraged to access the IBF MySkills Portfolio (https://www.ibf.org.sg/home/for-individuals/resource-tools/myskills-portfolio) to track their training progress and skills acquisition against the Skills Framework for Financial Services. You can apply for IBF Certification after fulfilling the required number of Technical Skills and Competencies (TSCs) for the selected job role.
Find out more about IBF certification and the application process at https://www.ibf.org.sg/home/for-individuals/ibf-certification/why-be-ibf-certified
Note:
In addition to Course Fees, each participant will also be charged a non-refundable and non-claimable application fee of S$85 (including GST). If you are taking both certifications, the application fee will only be charged once.
Fees shown are after IBF-STS funding. Subsidised# fees apply upon participants’ successful completion of the programme, which includes (i) fulfilling minimum attendance requirements and (ii) passing all relevant assessments.
#Subsidies are subject to change by IBF and fees will be adjusted based on prevailing funding rates. Click here to read more about funding support for IBF-STS, and the terms & conditions governing registration, payment, cancellation, deferment and no-show.
Eligible SG citizens may utilise SkillsFuture Credit to offset course fees. This is only applicable for the regular SkillsFuture Credit, and not applicable for the SkillsFuture Credit (Mid-Career) additional top-up funding.
Global-Asia Family Office Circle (GFO Circle) Members are entitled to 10% discount across “Family Office” programmes. Click here for more information on GFO Circle membership.
The information above is correct at the time of publication. Wealth Management Institute reserves the right to amend the fees and/or terms and conditions as appropriate.
Please note that program dates are subject to change at WMI’s discretion in the event of unforeseen circumstances. WMI will strive to provide advance notice of any changes whenever possible.
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