Who are we?
Mission
The mission of the CSF is to protect the public by requiring mandatory professional development, upholding ethical standards and maintaining discipline among its roughly 34,000 members, who include financial security advisors, group insurance and annuity advisors, financial planners, mutual fund representatives and scholarship plan representatives.
Values and vision
Our values:
- Integrity
- Professionalism
- Leadership
- Collaboration
- Compassion
Our vision:
The Chambre de la sécurité financière aspires to become an influential leader fully recognized for its added value, its innovations, its inclusive approach and its contributions to supporting public confidence in financial services.
A unique regulatory model
The multidisciplinary regulation of professionals is a unique model of oversight specific to the Quebec system. It ensures optimal oversight of financial services advisors working in more than one industry sector. Since the CSF regulates five different and complementary fields of professional practice, we benefit from a comprehensive view of each professional’s practice.
As such, if a member is disbarred in one discipline for reasons of professional conduct, their other licences to practice are automatically suspended in order to avoid any threat to consumers. This consistent approach is also reflected in terms of continuing education and prevention in matters of professional conduct, so as to offer the public integrated professional advice and services with equally integral protection.
Recognized expertise
In concrete terms, the CSF acts by:
- Managing mandatory professional development to ensure the competence of its members*
- Developing and enforcing ethical rules
- Monitoring discipline to ensure high standards of practice
- Raising awareness of best practices
- Working with regulatory authorities to adapt and modernize oversight of the profession
- Keeping abreast of issues and trends by establishing links with the work of advisors
* Financial planners who are members of the CSF must comply with the professional development requirements of the Financial Planning Institute. However, if they also hold other licences regulated by the CSF, they are required to meet the professional development requirements specific to those licences.
