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Our Vision
Our Vision is "To bring lasting abundance and
dignity to the Caribbean peoples by enabling them to achieve financial self-sufficiency". We see our association, the CFPA, as a catalyst in this process.
CFPA members can provide an ozone layer of financial self-empowerment for our families and small businesses, the economic
bricks in the wall of the CARICOM economy. This diverse assortment of human capital is what drives each economy in the region.
But the main ingredients in the mortar holding the bricks together are 'sound financial planning and management',
subjects not taught in school and learned by trial and (mostly) error.
CFPA members are here to coach, guide
and assist our CARICOM human capital resources, to show them how to leverage their power to provide comfortably for themselves,
their dependents and their stakeholders with dignity.
Can our vision become a reality? Yes, definitely! Simply
by helping to empower each family and small business towards achieving their own financial self-sufficiency and security goals.
But this calls for something new - a service the financial institutions should now provide - ie a new culture of training
their staff in the skills of professional financial planning and need fulfilment, instead of being product-centric. The
irony is that the institutions will do more (and better quality) business in the end. Why? Because they will have educated
and empowered their customers to avail themselves of a wider range of their services - through getting to know and trust the
organisation better. And with more self-service offerings greater efficiency and profits will result.
Our Region
The CARICOM Treaty was finally ratified on 1st January 2007 and most of the 15 member states have implemented the various
directives. So, good progress is being made towards creating a level playing field for delivering professional services to
the CARICOM inhabitants. We are not far off emulating the success of the European Union with their single market system
and the benefits which follow.
We intend to attract CFPA Members from the working professionals, trainees and
students across the entire CARICOM geography and across all the financially-related professions therein. We also want
to get the attention and involvement of the CARICOM diaspora in the US, Canada and Europe. If they join us they will be taking
the first step to return home to work for a worthy and profitable cause of empowering their friends, relatives and the wider
community.
Your comments
We gladly welcome your comments, criticisms and suggestions to help us do a better job of building the CFPA for the benefit
of Caribbean-based families and businesses. Please use the form below. Your comments will be kept confidential. Thank you.
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