Further Education and Training: Wealth Management (NQF 4)

At Moonstone Business School of Excellence, we are proud to offer widely recognised Wealth Management courses. The Qualification is a holistic introduction to Wealth Management and Wealth Creation. It enables intermediaries to understand the Wealth Management environment, the legislative requirements and product-related information. Our qualification is aimed at students with less than four years’ experience, newcomers to the industry, or those who have lots of experience, but would like to brush up on their product knowledge. We developed the Skills Programmes, covered in this qualification, to provide intermediaries with more options to comply with the requirements of the FAIS Act.

What will this Qualification enable you to do?

  1. Sell Long-term Category A products (assistance policies including funeral policies), Long-term B1 and B2.
  2. Sell risk policies and guaranteed investments/ savings, recurring policies and annuities other than single premium annuities.

Who should apply?

Students who require licensing in funeral plans, risk policies, long term B and guaranteed investments.

Content

The full qualification of 150 credits is divided into Skills Programmes of approximately 30 credits each:

  • Each Skills Programme is an independent programme and one can enrol at any time for these Skills Programmes.
  • This qualification is unit standard based: students will receive credits for each Skills Programme they finish i.e. you do not have to finish the full qualification to receive credits.
  • At least three Skills Programmes are compulsory.
  • Two of the Skills Programmes are mathematics/mathematics literacy and communication literacy: students with a grade 12 certificate with mathematics and two languages present, will be granted possible exemption.

Skills Programme 1 – Compulsory
(31 credits)

The majority of these Skills Programmes mainly consist of legislation like FAIS, FICA, Law of contract, Long Term Insurance Act (LTIA) and compulsory statutory insurance. Students will learn to apply skills of customer care, client relationships, needs analyses and funeral insurance.

Skills Programme 2 – Compulsory
(32 credits)

Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of insurable risk, describe group insured benefits and disability insurance solutions, analyse Long-term products and the benefits of each and how current events in the media, could impact wealth management.

Skills Programme 3 – Compulsory
(34 credits)

Students will have the knowledge to explain basic economics, capital markets and instruments, equity markets, basic investment principles, money markets and instruments. They will learn to investigate a range of options available for wealth management, describe and apply the basic principles.

Skills Programme 4 – Elective
Mathematics
(16 credits)

Students who have passed mathematics in grade 12 will possibly be granted exemption.
If you are not granted exemption, you will learn to apply knowledge of statistics and probability as well as use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal/ business issues.

Skills Programme 5 – Elective
Communication and additional SA Language
(40 credits)

Students who have passed two languages in grade 12 will possibly be granted exemption.
If you are not granted exemption, you will learn to read, interpret and use information from texts as well as write and engage in oral communication.

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Learning Material
  • Learning material is developed for outcome-based training and is developed in conjunction with industry requirements.
  • Learning material is continuously updated with any changes in the market place.
  • Learning material is easy to access and easy to understand without facilitation.
  • Learning material only available in English.
Accreditation and Certification

The Qualification consist of Fundamental, Core and Elective Components. To be awarded the Qualification, students are required to obtain a minimum of 150 credits in line with the component requirements. Certification will occur as soon as all the relevant unit standards toward the qualification have been completed, verified and endorsed by INSETA and uploaded onto the National Learner Records Database (NLRD).

Assessments
  • After completion of the Portfolio of Evidence, the students will either courier the proof of evidence to the Assessor or upload on LMS for assessment. Once assessed and the students is found Competent in all the Skills Programmes, MBSE will contact the candidate to arrange for a closed-book Summative Assessment.
  • Additional assignments will be handed in on the day of the Summative Assessment.
  • Should the candidate be unsuccessful in the Skills Programmes on the Portfolio of Evidence, MBSE will contact the candidate to apply for a rewrite on these Skills Programmes.
  • Once Competent MBSE will arrange for the Summative Assessment.