Meet the Adviser Champions: SIFA's Ian Muirhead

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Advisers achieving professional status by virtue of their association with traditional law firms is the best-case scenario for financial advice envisaged by Ian Muirhead.

The chairman of SIFA, which aims to encourage solicitors and advisers to work together, sees advisers working alongside solicitors as the natural home for financial advice. Muirhead is the latest Adviser Champion to appear in Professional Adviser's new series of videos, following our interviews with Openwork's Philip Martin, Adviser Home's Brendan Llewlleyn and Panacea Adviser's Derek Bradley.  The Personal Finance Society's Keith Richards and the CISI's Campbell Edgar have also appeared in the series.  Leaving behind thoughts of solicitor-adviser relationships for a moment, Muirhe...

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