From photography to advice: Laura Laws on capturing clients' hearts

‘Financial advice seemed like a natural fit – I love people’

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Stefanie Price Wealth Management senior financial adviser Laura Laws talks to Isabel Baxter about her career change from photography to advice

Laws started off her career as a company secretary for an electrical engineering firm before running a photography studio to eventually moving into financial advice at St James's Place (SJP) where she then joined a partner practice.  She gave it up her initial corporate career to be a photographer, which gave her more time to spend with her children. Speaking to PA, Laws explained that there were several factors that led to her choosing her current career in financial advice. When the time came to return to her career, she took the people skills she had honed through photography an...

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