The one day IFP Conference on Ethics held in London on 1st April was a tremendously helpful and encouraging day, reports Andrew Snowden CFP^CM of Snowden Financial.
Taking a topic that some might consider as 'dry as toast' and managing to turn it into an interesting and surprisingly informative occasion was no mean feat.
The speakers were all knowledgeable in their own areas of expertise and, in what is often a rare combination, able to hold their audience's attention and interest with terrific examples and anecdotes.
There are of course numerous possibilities for illustrating ethical (and unethical) issues but the use of old masters from the art galleries around the world was a first in any financial planning discussion for me and fascinating as well as illustrative.
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The afternoon case studies were great exploratory adventures into nightmare situations, where one's instant reaction was always going to be found very lacking by the time other audience members had voiced their opinions.
I formed opinions and then discarded them for new opinions on a minute-by-minute basis and somewhere towards the end finally managed to grasp the overall essence of the ethical dilemmas put to us originally.
A terrific day, I learned a great deal and came away understanding the ethical issues in a much clearer light.