Each month Financial Planner asks a leading Financial Planner to share his or her best practice from their business and tell the story of their company. This issue we talk to Chris Bowmer CFPCM of Accredited Financial Planning Firm Fortitude Financial Planning in Northamptonshire.
With just six months to go until the UK’s biggest Financial Planning event, plans are being finalised at IFP HQ to ensure it lives up to delegates ever increasing expectations. This year will be the 25th IFP conference and the event will take place from 1-3 October at the five star Celtic Manor Resort in South Wales.
Chris Jordan CFPCM of Heron House Financial Management is proud to be a part of a growing IFP Accredited Financial Planning FirmTM. Here he shares some ideas on best practice and business growth.
Years of surveys have shown that consumers value the personal touch and want an adviser who recognises their individual needs and characteristics. This demand for ‘personalisation’ relates not only to clients’ assets but also to their gender.
I am not sure that I have ever posed this question to any of my clients: “Do you trust me?”It’s a given. It is implicit in all our dealings with each other and has been since the day we opened the doors in May 2000.
Each month Financial Planner will be interviewing a leading planner to ask him or her to share best practice from their business. This month we talk to Ben Westaway CFPCM of Jessop Financial Planning in Sheffield.
Towards the end of 2011, Financial Planners might have been excused for dreading the onset of 2012. This was not because of the economic chill sweeping Europe or because of predictions from the pundits but because the year ahead would mark the countdown to the much anticipated Retail Distribution Review on 1 January 2013.
Each month Financial Planner will be interviewing a leading Financial Planner to ask him or her to share best practice. This month we talk to David Crozier CFPCM of Navigator Financial Planning.
Planning for 2012’s Financial Planning Week in November has already begun after the success of the initiative last year.
Financial Planning Week polls highlight uncertain future
Don't deleteDaily polls for the Institute for Financial Planning’s consumer- focused Financial Planning Week 2011 raised challenging points about consumers’ attitudes to finances. The polls, conducted by YouGov in association with NS&I, questioned over 2,000 people.
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Andrew Brook Dobson CFPCM of Accredited Financial Planning FirmTM Brook Dobson Brear shares his best practice with the planning community.
Parallels between the UK and South African Financial Planning are explored by Financial Planner Tony Granger CFPCM who has over 30 years of experience covering both countries.
The IFP's prestigious David Norton Building Excellence Award recognises planning firms going places. Shane Mullins, MD of this year's winner Fiscal Engineers, shares some of the secrets of his winning formula.
Simon Ainley CFPCM of Holland Hahn & Wills discusses reaching a birthday milestone and how he strives to keep himself fit and his young family happy while also helping to run a busy Financial Planning practice.