In the Next Generation Advisers interview series, senior reporter Isabel Baxter introduces the next generation of advisers and how they are planning to make their mark, starting off with Octopus Money’s Kristian Manton.
Manton is the UK's youngest-ever Fellow of the Personal Finance Society, at 21 years old when he got his title. He started his current role as a Chartered financial adviser for Octopus Money nearly two years ago. ‘I very much started at the bottom' Manton explained that he did not intend to become a financial adviser. "When I was at school I was always quite interested in finance and money," he told PA. Initially, he intended to go to university to study economics. "I was going to go to then maybe try and run an investment bank or something similar, but I didn't end up goin...
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