Ivan Martin wins Widows' personality of the year award

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Ivan Martin, executive chairman of the newly-merged Sesame Bankhall distribution giant, has picked up the industry personality of the year gong at Scottish Widows' annual IFA awards.

Martin has been particularly outspoken about the RDR, particularly issues concerning factoring and the long-stop, and last year branded the review's 'sales advice' category a "Frankenstein creation". It has since been changed. Martin became head of the largest appointed representative network, with around 3,000 advisers, and the largest directly regulated service business, supporting over 1,500 firms, earlier this month following Sesame's merger with Bankhall. Elsewhere, Helm Godfrey's head of employee benefits Roger Sanders OBE picked up the lifetime achievement award at the ceremony...

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