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AnonymousWhat is the tense of...

The role that being educated in successful financial planning is important.

And do I have all the verbs in bold?

This is not a sentence.

The only finite verb is "is," and its tense is simple present.

"Being" is a gerund. (a verbal)
"educated" is a past participal (a verbal, but probably an adjective here)
"Planning" is a noun here, but is originally a present participle (verbal), and arguably a gerund in many cases.

Perhaps you could call "being educated" some kind of passive participle.
If you give it a subject, "He is being educated," it's present continuous, passive voice.

If you add the transitive verb "plays" in your "that" clause, you then have a sentence in simple present:

The role that being educated plays in successful financial planning is important.

The main verb is still "is."

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