Meet the Adviser Champions: CISI's Campbell Edgar

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Financial Planning Week, which starts on 8 May, gives advisers the perfect opportunity to showcase their expertise, meet people in their communities and demonstrate trusted financial advice is close at hand, says Campbell Edgar.

The Chartered Institute of Securities & Investments (CISI) head of financial planning becomes the second guest to feature in Professional Adviser's‘ Adviser Champions' series following the curtain-opening appearance from Personal Finance Society counterpart chief executive Keith Richards. Edgar goes on to urge planners and advisers to make the most of Financial Planning Week to offer pro-bono advice and show professional financial planning and advice is not necessarily expensive. Asked what his worst-case scenario for the profession would be, however, Edgar warns of going back to the ...

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