Unifed stand to improve image of IFAs

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When Investment Week was launched five and a half years ago in January 1995 we declared we were goin...

When Investment Week was launched five and a half years ago in January 1995 we declared we were going to be a "Garry Heath-free zone," a statement which raised a few eyebrows at the time and one which meant that particular individual wouldn't speak to our journalists for many months. That declaration was made because we felt the representatives of the independent financial adviser sector, in the form of Nfifa, were not credible and worthy officers of that responsibility. We think the ultimate demise of Nfifa proved us to be correct and we have always extended our criticism to include IFA P...

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