Meet the Adviser Champions: Vito Faircloth

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The financial advice sector needs to define a path for the next generation to come through the ranks and become advisers, believes Vito Faircloth, because as things stand young people do not know where to start.

The youngest-ever Fellow of the Personal Finance Society maintains younger people do see advice as a prestigious career but are at a loss at how to get there themselves. He also admits that, originally, he did not know how to become an adviser or that it was even a feasible option at a young age. Faircloth, voted by his peers as Personality of the Year at the PA Awards 2017, is the latest Adviser Champion to appear in Professional Adviser's series of videos, following interviews most recently with SIFA's Ian Muirhead, Panacea Adviser's Derek Bradley and Adviser Home's Brendan Llewlleyn. ...

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