The secret aspirations of a director general

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Chris Cummings, director general of Aifa and Ami, greeted me in a shirt and jeans on Friday morning - apparently in preparation for the Aifa Christmas party - declaring: "I've actually dressed up today - usually I'm wearing very casual clothes!"

It's a sharp contrast to the image I had of a man dressed in a business suit and purely focused on the world of IFAs and it seems his sense of humour is just one of many surprises behind the top man at the Association of IFAs. Outside of the office environment, Cummings reveals he has a passion for writing rather than regulation, and describes his latest venture into comedy/drama TV scriptwriting as “northern Only Fools and Horses meets Chocolat” while declaring his great ambition is to write at least one successful script or novel, which will “pay for an Aston Martin DBG and a round-the-w...

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