Jeremy Cole has recently (April 2008) passed the following three public examinations.
Each involved approx 100 hrs revision, a course in London and an examination:
Securities & Investment Institute (exams part of the FSA regulation)
Level 3 Certificate in Investments (Derivatives)
http://www.sii.org.uk/web5/infopool.nsf/HTML/qU3dev?OpenDocument
Unit 8 – Investment & Risk
The SII is widely acknowledged as the main provider of qualifications for the securities and investment industry. Many SII qualifications are regarded as the ‘licence to practice’ for certain industries that an employee has to hold before they are permitted to undertake a particular activity unsupervised.
Since 1st November 2007, employees advising and/or dealing in securities / securities and financial derivatives/derivatives/financial derivatives on behalf of retail clients (which could include clients which have opted to be treated as retail clients under MiFID) have been subject to FSA’s T & C Sourcebook and the Financial Services Skills Council (FSSC) Appropriate Examination list. One consequence of the FSSC’s exam standards for the activity of advising and/or dealing in securities / securities and financial derivatives on behalf of retail clients is that, from 19 November 2007, employees completing their qualification have to take an additional examination - Investment & Risk – requiring success in 3 examinations to qualify.
Jeremy may well be the first and only person in the agricultural trade to be qualified to advise on derivatives to Retail clients (a legal requirement since MIFID in November 2007).
Jeremy is a member of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists
The Guild of Agricultural Journalists represents reporters, broadcasters, photographers and media specialists working in agriculture, commercial horticulture and other rural industries.
Members range from agriculture and environment correspondents on national newspapers to specialists writing for trade magazines as well as communicators working in PR agencies, companies and other organisations in the sector.
For more information on the GAJ please visit www.gaj.org.uk
Other qualifications:
BSC (Hons) Agricultural Economics, 2:1 Reading University 1981
BASIS qualified, since 1985 Caythorpe College, Linc.
FACTS registered
HGV licenced
Previously a Cereal and Pea and Bean crop inspector
Jeremy is also sponsor of the Comberton Squash Club Agricole Cup
