The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has published details of its 2015 regional seminar series.

The seminars are designed to provide an opportunity for advisers across the country to discuss a number of key issues for the financial advice profession. The programme includes seminars on three themes: pension reform, regulation and best practice.

The seminars take place throughout the year, beginning in Swindon on 20 January. The best practice seminars are sponsored by investment managers Deepbridge Advisers, who will be speaking on tax efficiency. Other speakers will include APFA, TPAS, the FCA, FOS and other industry figures.

“These seminars are a great opportunity for all our members right across the UK to get together with other industry professionals and discuss some of the issues facing financial advice today,” said Chris Hannant, director general of APFA.

“This is a time of great change, not least with pension freedoms arriving in April, and we’re pleased to have speakers talking about the changes and how advisers can best respond to the choices their clients will face.

“We’re also delighted to be welcoming sponsors Deepbridge, who will be speaking about best practice in tax advice at our best practice events across the year.”

APFA’s Regional Seminar Series schedule is as follows:

20 January – Swindon
5 February – Doncaster
10 February – High Wycombe
3 March – Cardiff
10 March – Newcastle
14 April – Wolverhampton
23 April – London
12 May – Exeter
21 May – Cambridge
9 June – Lancaster
16 June – Belfast
1 July – Leicester
July (TBC) – London
14 July – Edinburgh
September (TBC) – Poole
15 September – Crawley
October (TBC) – Worcester
October (TBC) – Sevenoaks
November (TBC) – Harrogate
November (TBC) – Macclesfield

Ian Warwick, managing director of Deepbridge Advisers Limited, added: “We are pleased to be supporting APFA with the delivery of their 2015 regional seminar series. Increasing numbers of advisers are utilising tax efficient investments to meet clients’ needs. By the very nature of such propositions, they often fall outside of advisers’ core investment propositions and therefore advisers tell us that education and refreshing of knowledge is useful. We hope APFA’s members also find our educational style useful.”