IFA comments: WIG may have lost direction with its awards

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Yet more comments have flowed in, following last week's IFAonline editorial on the WIG dinner and the questions raised concerning gender discrimination.

Gini Bolton, financial planner at FiscalEngineers in Nottingham, says having attended the WIG dinner herself, she believes the original direction of WIG is being lost. “I wanted to respond to your article, having felt there were very relevant points made. ”During the dinner, I felt uncomfortable with many of the comments made within the speeches, particularly those appearing to degrade our male counterparts. Although I think the concept that Fiona Price first thought of when creating WIG was relevant, it has become a cringe-making organisation that seems to think an award is granted to 'sup...

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