How can you advise the clergy?

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In the second part of a series on advisers who specialise in different professions, Joanna Faith talks to Melanie Wray about advising the clergy.

Financial adviser Anne Wray is married to a retired Methodist minister. Her first hand experience of the church makes her the ideal candidate to advise her client base - members of the clergy. Anne’s self-titled firm is a real family business. Based in Chorley, Lancashire, it is run by Anne herself, with the help of daughter Melanie, a financial adviser who joined the firm four years ago, and son Tom, who looks after IT and website support. The Wrays also have a self-employed paraplanner who is not a family member. Anne started her career as a tied agent with Methodist Insurance, an ins...

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