Adviser Focus: Gillian Mackenzie

Under the thick smog of warnings of a mass exit of IFAs unable or unwilling to deal with burdensome RDR requirements, Gillian Mackenzie has qualified as an adviser. Just this year, in February, Mackenzie took her final exam that enables her to practice as a fully-fledged IFA under current rules. But we all know those are changing. And the 41-year-old, who works for Stockton firm W R Financial Management, isn’t one to hang around until 2012 to see whether the FSA will bow to pressure to relax its strict demands for a higher-qualified industry. She has already completed three of the four ...