GFAB 2026 for financial advisers in India

GFAB, the Global Financial Adviser Benchmark, is open to advisers in India for its founding edition, GFAB 2026. If you advise clients about their money, it is for you, whether you call yourself a financial adviser, a financial advisor, a planner or a relationship manager.

It is free, it takes about two hours, and you receive a private report on how you exercise professional judgment.

Who can take part

GFAB is for anyone who advises clients on their financial lives, including:

• SEBI-registered investment advisers
• Mutual fund distributors
• CFP professionals and other financial planners
• Relationship managers, private bankers and wealth managers
• Insurance advisers who plan with their clients

You do not need a particular licence or qualification to take part.

How it works

• Register. Sign up at gfab.prosperitylab.ai with your email address. It takes a few minutes, and you can start straight away or come back later.
• Answer the situations. There are 81 in all. Allow about two hours. Once you start, you have 48 hours to finish, your answers are saved as you go, and you can stop and come back. While you are part-way through, GFAB sends a short reminder at 9 in the morning and 6 in the evening, your local time.
• Read your private report. It is prepared automatically after you submit.

The situations are about client life, not local rules

GFAB does not test regulation, tax or product knowledge, in India or anywhere else. The situations are about what every adviser meets: families, competing priorities, uncertainty, risk and difficult conversations. What matters is how you would handle them with a real client.

What you get

Your report shows your two clearest strengths and what they mean for your clients, one area worth your attention next with three things to try in real client work, a profile across eight areas of judgment, and a separate view of how well your confidence matched your choices. See the sample report for a fictional adviser.

Your privacy

• Your report is private. There are no public scores and no rankings.
• If you choose, you can share a completion record with your name on it, or be listed in the adviser directory. Neither ever shows a score.
• If an institution invited you, it never sees your answers, your score or your report.
• How GFAB handles your information is set out in the privacy notice.

Independent

GFAB is run by ProsperityLab, based in the DIFC in Dubai. It is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, SEBI, AMFI or FPSB India. Taking part does not award a qualification or a licence.

Dates

Registration for GFAB 2026 closes on 16 November 2026. GFAB is annual, so the next opportunity after that is the 2027 edition.