They've got money, but I won't work with them

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Nicola Brittain
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You may be grateful for any work you can get, but financial planner Bhupinder Anand flat-out refuses to work with engineers or teachers, among others. Why?

“I love what I do. And this is in part because I am very careful about the type of client I recruit. I realise this may sound odd to advisers who see their clients in purely economic terms, but even they will understand what I am about to write. As a result of experience I have learnt that there are certain types of people I can’t work with. These include computer programmers, engineers and teachers. Professionals of this sort won’t get past the first hurdle with me. It isn’t because I have anything against them personally; it’s just that I have had many – more than half a dozen I’d s...

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