Meet the paraplanner: Martin Vaughan

Martin Vaughan is founder of Paragon Paraplanning. He is also co-founder of theparaplanner.com, the UK’s first website dedicated to paraplanning. How did you become a paraplanner? I have been working in financial services for 17 years, initially as a financial adviser for Prudential, HSBC and others. I reached a point, around nine years ago, when I wanted to get into the IFA field. I looked at where my strengths lay, and found I was best suited to research, writing reports and other tasks which we now associate with paraplanning. I have not been a regulated individual since then, and ...