As APFA turns 15 director general Chris Hannant talks to Jenna Towler about the body's long-stop fight, its success-to-resource ratio and the need for advisers to speak with ‘one voice'
A lot can happen in 15 years - especially when it comes to financial advice - and the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has seen it all. APFA, formerly the Association of Independent Financial Advisers, was incorporated 15 years ago this month and works for the benefit of advisers, in all their various guises. Its success stories include a significant reduction in the fees advisers pay to fund the Money Advice Service, an increase in the number of free ombudsman cases from three to 25 and a block on European attempts to cap the fees advisers can charge. It is curre...
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