How Albemarle Street Partners supports 'breakaway' advisers

An inside into its initiative that helps advisers launch their own business

Isabel Baxter
clock • 3 min read

With advisers usually left with the binary routes of either joining a consolidator or a network, Albemarle Street Partners partnership director Eleanor Williams sat down with Isabel Baxter to discuss the firm’s initiative to support advisers who wish to remain independent

Launched just over a year ago, discretionary fund manager Albemarle Street Partners' ‘Breakaway Adviser' initiative aims to support advisers who want to set up independently or who are already part of a firm or network but wish to go independent. Williams explains that it supports advisers by helping with applications for direct authorisation with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), interview preparation, as well as compliance. "The support is for advisers at any stage," Williams says. "It is about going beyond just the investment proposition." Advisers who wish to start their j...

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