In this series, Professional Adviser speaks with graduates of The Verve Foundation’s Adviser Incubator education programme. Today, it’s IFA Rachel Edwards speaking with Isabel Baxter…
What was your career history before you took part in the incubator programme? Before taking part in the programme, Edwards worked for an IFA part-time as the office manager/technical admin support while also being self-employed at a compliance firm. "I was file checking advisers all around the country and was doing admin to support the compliance firm each quarter," she said. "I very quickly felt like I was doing everything apart from speaking to people. I really love people, so for me that was the easy part to take on." Edwards explained that the compliance firm said it would ...
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