{"id":6349,"date":"2018-10-26T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2018-10-30T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:59:35","slug":"josh-butten-finalist-certified-financial-planner-of-the-year-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/josh-butten-finalist-certified-financial-planner-of-the-year-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Butten, Finalist &#8211; CFP of the Year 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #2b2155;\">Following the merger between the Institute of Financial Planning and the Chartered Institute for Securities &amp; Investments, the CISI now present some of our profession&#8217;s most highly coveted awards, including the CFP Professional of the Year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2155;\">Achieving Certified Financial Planner (CFP) status is the pinnacle of qualifications for a Financial Planner, with just 982 CFP Professionals in the UK, of which we are proud to have 3 within the boosst team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2155;\">Josh reached the shortlist of top UK Financial Planners in August and invited to London in September to be assessed based on a written Case Study and a technical interview with 3 representatives from the CISI. The process was rigorous and certainly worthy of the accolade!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2155;\">Both Keith and Josh were also invited to speak at the CISI&#8217;s annual Financial Planning Conference in October but it wasn&#8217;t until the evening Gala Dinner that the award winners were announced. Vicki and Jennie were also at the event to hear the results as Josh was announced as runner-up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2155;\">Whilst clearly delighted to have finished Second against highly-regarded competitors, Josh was of course, somewhat pained to have come so close to winning!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2155;\">The judge&#8217;s result was a split-decision, awarding Josh with &#8216;Highly Commended&#8217; status and second place overall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2155;\">Josh said:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b2155;\">&#8220;I am hugely thankful for being recognised at this level so young in my career. I really do hope that this achievement gives encouragement to my fellow young Financial Planners and inspires confidence in our clients, who can see that boosst is working at the very highest level with a focus on nurturing young talent.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2155;\">The boosst team are all very proud of Josh&#8217;s achievement and hope that he can go on to win next year!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2155;\"><a style=\"color: #2b2155;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/josh-butten-finalist-certified-financial-planner-of-the-year-2018\/cfp-finalist-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6352\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6352 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CFP-Finalist-1-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CFP-Finalist-1-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CFP-Finalist-1-768x315.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CFP-Finalist-1-1024x421.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CFP-Finalist-1-1700x700.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the merger between the Institute of Financial Planning and the Chartered Institute for Securities &amp; Investments, the CISI now present some of our profession&#8217;s most highly coveted awards, including&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35],"tags":[44,42,41,39,43,45],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6349"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6381,"href":"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions\/6381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boosst.financial\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}