In this series, Professional Adviser speaks with graduates of The Verve Foundation’s Adviser Incubator education programme. Today, it’s IFA Toby Barklem speaking with Isabel Baxter…
What was your career history before you took part in the incubator programme? Barklem started off in the British Army as his first career. He went to Sandhurst in 2006 and then was an officer in the Royal Artillery and latterly did six years in the military. After that, he moved into financial services as an account manager at Standard Life. "On that job I worked on workplace pensions and then some investment focus later on." Barklem then went off on shared parental leave for his first daughter. "I have three children. This was my first and I was thinking, ‘do I want to go ba...
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