Grahame Hopper awarded a Worldwide Excellence Award

VWM Wealth are pleased to announce that Grahame Hopper, Director and Chartered Financial Planner, has been awarded a Worldwide Excellence Award from STEP (the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners).

STEP is the global professional association for practitioners who specialise in family inheritance and succession planning. The awards, held twice yearly, recognise the top scoring student at distinction level in each of the STEP exams globally. Grahame recently passed the STEP Certificate in Financial Services (Trusts and Estate Planning) achieving the highest scoring mark in the exam worldwide.

All of us at VWM are so delighted and very proud of this fantastic achievement!

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