The Adviser Incubator: Meet Chartered planner Anick Sharma

An inside look at The Verve Foundation’s programme

Isabel Baxter
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In this series, Professional Adviser speaks with graduates of The Verve Foundation’s Adviser Incubator education programme. Today, it’s IFA and Certified financial planner, Anick Sharma speaking with Isabel Baxter…

What was your career history before you took part in the incubator programme? Sharma was in academia before he went into financial advice and published a white paper looking at the prefrontal cortex of the brain and rugby players who had concussion. He considered beginning a PhD, but soon realised that this was not a direction that he wished to take anymore. "I know most people say they fell into financial services. I feel like I actively made the choice," Sharma explained. Sharma began his journey as a graduate trainee financial planner at Brook-Dobson Bear. After that, he lande...

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