Man and boy: Alan Steel toasts 40 years since launching his IFA business

A quick Q&A with Alan Steel, who set up his IFA business 40 years ago this year

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"Never listen to pessimists" - a quick Q&A with Alan Steel, who founded IFA Alan Steel Asset Management 40 years ago this year...

  Describe your time as an adviser in one word Fulfilling   What was your first job in financial services? A trainee actuary with Scottish Widows - July 1969   Would you do it all again? Not the actuarial bit (I failed the medical...

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