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Training Consultants:
Christina Tin
Francis Warren Mckeown
CHRISTINA TIN
CFPCM, CFCTM, M.Bus (Finance)
Managing Director, CTES Consulting Pte Ltd
Christina
has built an outstanding career in both the Financial Services Industry
and HR industry. With her 18 years of exposure to the industry,
she has been consistently engaged in consulting and training projects,
both in the financial services and HR sector.
Being in the Financial Services industry for 18 years, Christina
has been involved in a myriad of training and consulting work. She
has written and delivered training courses to train private bankers
globally in the development and delivery of financial strategy for
high net-worth individuals. She specializes in the cultural shift
from a sales-based client relationship to an advice-based client
relationship (from transactional to influential). She has, to date,
trained more than 1000 private bankers around the world.
Christina is also involved in numerous HR consulting projects.
In one of her recent projects, she was engaged as full-time consultant
for 15 months in running the entire operation of the Singapore office
of a Recruitment and Executive Search Group with offices in Singapore,
China and Australia. During this period, she enhanced and implemented
business systems and has helped the Singapore office achieve 70%
increased in sales turnover for 2006, recording the highest sales
volume in its 14 years’ operation.
Christina lectures regularly at Singapore Institute of Management
(SIM). She lectures in the area of Financial Planning, Customer
Service Helping Skills and Superannuation and Retirement Planning.
The courses that she is involved in include Bachelor of Business
in Accountancy, Bachelor of Business in Financial Planning and Bachelor
of Business in Economics and Finance with the RMIT University.
Christina has also been invited to Radio 93.8 (Singapore) to discuss
about Financial Planning for Women and she has written several articles
for the media, including the highly-acclaimed “Importance
of Understanding Your Financial Health”.
Christina holds the responsibility to promote professionalism in
the Financial Services industry in her capacity as Co-Founder of
the Financial Practitioners Association for Graduates Singapore
(FPAGS).
Christina is a Certified Financial Planner and a Certified Financial
Coach. She also has a Master of Business degree in Finance.
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FRANCIS
WARREN MCKEOWN
Warren has built a reputable profession in the Financial Services
and Education sector. He was the Course Director in financial planning
at the School of Economics and Finance, RMIT University. By constantly
liaising with industry bodies, he develops short courses for industry
practitioners. He has provided countless consultation and accounting
on many financial planning matters in the Financial Services Industry.
And, he has been consulting and training in various countries including
Australia and Singapore, where he has also spearheaded several workshops.
For over a decade, Professor McKeown has managed undergraduate
courses of both Australia and Singapore programs offered via Open
Universities Australian. He was also responsible for subject development
and course co-ordination for undergraduates and post-graduates.
He conducts lectures in the area of Financial Planning for both
the Undergraduate and Masters Courses, including subjects on Superannuation,
Insurance, Estate Planning and Risk Management.
He assumes key roles and responsibilities in Financial Planning
Association of Australia and Certified Public Accountant (Australia).
To name a few, he is a member of the Disciplinary and Academics
Progress Committee and a nominee as a panel member of the Financial
Industry Complaints Service in FPA and is also a member of the Advisory
Panel for CPA. Besides that, Warren is an oral assessor and writer
of examination questions for the Certified Financial Planning Program.
Warren is a highly-acclaimed author and editor. His works comprises
of the best seller “Personal Finance”, “The Australian
Insurance Institute Journal Selected Readings – Risk Management
and Insurance”, “Cases in Strategic Management”
and “Asia Financial Planning Journal, 2000”. He has
also conducted and written innumerable research activities and articles
such as “Should individuals have a greater say in managing
national pension schemes?” and “Do financial planners
need a degree?”. His current research interest concerns market
efficiency, asymmetric information and agency theory in the context
of personal financial planning industry.
Being highly outstanding, Warren has also received several awards,
including The Australian Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing
2001 Tertiary Single Title Category and he was also a member of
the team that received the RMIT Teaching award in the category of
Student Centred Teaching in 2002.
Warren is a Certified Financial Planner and a Chartered Accountant.
He also holds a Master of Business (Research).
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ADJ.
PROF. WES MCMASTER, CFP
Wes built his own financial planning business
and ran it for 16 years. He has been the CEO of a number of large
national financial planning businesses and he was Chairman of the
Financial Planning Association of Australia for two years. During
his period as a director of the FPA, he contributed to much of the
thinking that has now emerged in the Financial Services Reform Act
governing financial advice in Australia.
Prof. McMaster's present role is that he is a Director
of his own consulting business, McMaster Securities Pty Ltd. He
is providing business planning and strategic advice on distribution
as well as the establishment and positioning of financial services
businesses. He is also advising institutions and individual businesses
on acquisitions and mergers. His principal clients are financial
institutions, accounting groups and financial planning businesses.
He is also providing consulting and training services
in South East Asia through his company, McMaster & Tin Pte Ltd
based in Singapore. He and his partner have been recently engaged
in writing and delivering training courses in financial planning
to private bankers in financial institutions. He is also sought
after as a speaker on directions in financial planning in the region.
Wes is consulted on business issues in financial
advice businesses ranging from brand name institutions to financial
planning practices. He has also developed a reputation among the
leading law firms as an expert in rules governing financial advice.
Wes is also a Director of The Money Managers Ltd
in Melbourne as well as Adjunct Professor of Financial Planning
at RMIT University.
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