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lacible | Mai 2016
C H A I R ' S M E S S A G E
You are reading the very first digital-only edition of La Cible. This
is an important step in the history of the publication, a step that
reflects the times. Don't worry – the magazine will stay the same. It's
just the paper version that has seen its last.
The first issue of La Cible was published in March 1993. If you have
been around that long, you may remember that it was just a leaflet,
called Le Bulletin. The president at the time, Jocelyne Gagnon,
began her message like this:
"Our first newsletter – modest, perhaps, but with such
promise!" That is how the founding president, Charles
Pelletier, promoted this publication idea a few months ago.
By the next fall, Le Bulletin had become La Cible. And now, 23 years
later, we have made such progress! Times change, habits change,
and we are going along with the trends.
2016-2019 Strategic Plan
Since 2016 marks the end of the IQPF's second triennial strategic
plan, we needed to develop our 2016-2019 strategic plan.
We took this opportunity to review the IQPF's values. Integrity,
diligence and transparency will continue to serve as fundamental
values, and we have added excellence and commitment to replace
professionalism, which is more of a behaviour than a value.
We also overhauled the IQPF's statements of mission and vision, as
follows:
Mission: To protect the personal finances of the public by
training financial planners and establishing standards of
professionnal practice.
Vision: To stand as the benchmark for personal finance through
the official recognition of the profession of financial planner.
Official recognition of the profession has become a strategic issue
unto itself. In the summer of 2015, we made it a central priority. The
situation had already changed significantly since we first submitted
TRANSITIONS
