'I'm not a crusader': A profile of Continuum founder Martin Brown

Carmen Reichman
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Former Positive Solutions 'top recruiter' Martin Brown outlines his plan for Continuum to become a client dinner-party conversation...

"I don't see myself as a crusader," says Martin Brown, but the managing partner of start-up advice firm Continuum Financial Services, and one-time Positive Solutions 'top recruiter', is sure he has created something unique in the market. Launched as part of the Caerus network in June, Continuum offers a fully advised, independent face-to-face service alongside a direct-to-consumer (D2C) distribution business. You won't have come across many of those. Continuum is, in many ways, Brown's life work, the culmination of a set of ideas harvested during his many years in financial services, ...

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