Back to school: how to advise teachers

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In the first part of a series on advisers who specialise in different professions, Joanna Faith talks to Alan Bowers about advising teachers

The directors of Teachers IFA Alan Bowers and Mark Jones have more than 40 years’ combined experience in financial services advice for teachers. They were both sales managers for Colonial (formerly Colonial Mutual), which was for many years the recognised provider of financial advice for the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT). When Colonial started closing branches in 1996, Bowers and Jones both set up their own businesses. They stayed in contact until 2000 when they decided to merge their companies. How do you market your firm? A lot of our bus...

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