COUNTRYWIDE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM Intake 1-2025
Starting February 2025
SAQA QUALIFICATION ID 50481
This qualification is presented by THE ACADEMY OF FINANCIAL MARKETS (AFM). It deals with applications and practical aspects of the financial services, markets, instruments and environment from a personal planning as well as an institutional point of view.
Wealth Management consultants and relationship managers |
Certified Financial Planners (CFPs), brokers, broker consultants and business development managers |
Private, personal and business bankers and transactional bankers |
Internal and external Audit |
Risk Managers |
Asset and portfolio Managers |
Finance and accounting staff |
Structured and Corporate Finance |
Legal consultants |
Individual investors |
Treasury staff (Front, middle and back-office) |
IT staff involved in financial institutions |
This course has been presented to financial market role players and institutions since 1994 and is updated regularly. These are some of the institutions that have benefited from AFM training:
ABSA |
FNB |
Standard Bank |
Sanlam |
Momentum/Metropolitan |
Old Mutual |
PricewaterhouseCoopers |
KPMG |
Ernst & Young |
South African |
Alexander Forbes |
JSE |
Legal consultants |
Bell Dewar |
FAIS Ombudsman |
New York Institute of Finance |
Kenya School of |
KAVAQ Institute |
The course is approved by FSCA on FAIS Notice 55 of 2021 (pg. 38) for all Categories, giving the learner a recognized qualification as per the “fit & proper” requirements of FAIS.
AFM is a BANKSETA Accredited Training Provider.
The AFM NQF 6 course is accepted as one of the courses on the lower ladder of qualifications towards CFP at the University of the Free State.