How Lighthouse is using technology to get RDR-ready

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Nothing however beats learning about how these solutions are used in real life so we have taken a few weeks out to speak to the networks and service providers about the problems they are trying to solve and the best solutions they have found, including their use of technology. This week we spoke to Stephen Gazard, managing director of Lighthouse Advisory Services.

Lighthouse structure The Lighthouse group has trod a complex development path to reach its position today. Launched back in 2001 and floated on AIM, it has since gone through a series of acquisitions to get to the scale of its organisation today. Its corporate manoeuvres include a buyout of the Canada Life sales force, and a merger with another AIM-listed firm, Sumus PLC; owners of the network operations Falcon Group and FSAS. The resultant Lighthouse group has now been consolidated into three divisions: An employed specialist division of 43 advisers addressing areas includin...

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