London IFA launches apprenticeship initiative

'To develop and nurture young talent'

Victoria McKeever
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Capital Asset Management has launched an apprenticeship scheme and, having taken on its first trainee, is now looking to attract further fresh talent into the financial advice sector.

Capital's financial planning administration apprenticeship has been set up to bring trainees into the firm at a client services assistant level, with the aim of enabling young people to gain a professional qualification while also getting to know clients and the sector firsthand. The firm's first apprentice, 22-year-old Bradley Miller, said: "Since joining Capital in January, I am very happy to say that taking a risk and leaving behind what I know has - as scary as it was - completely paid off. "I am fascinated by the science and art of investing and the positive difference great fina...

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