Adviser Focus: Guitar hero Ray Mills still pulls the strings

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A session guitarist for the maverick British record producer Joe Meek among others, Mills was at the frontline of the music revolution in the 1960s.

Hanging out at number 304 Holloway Road (Meek's cramped flat which he also used as a recording studio), Mills helped the famously tone deaf songwriter and producer translate pioneering ideas into chords. Now Mills finds himself once again breaking new ground. "There is always this dichotomy when you have an IFA business between the adviser wanting to be paid the highest rate for offering the best possible service and the business wanting to make the biggest profit," he says. "IFAs want to spend most of their time with their clients, backed up by good sales support, paraplanner assista...

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